Gilded Metal Leaf Paintings
Original Paintings designed to live together on your walls.
ARTISTRY. ART. ARCHITECTURE.
DESIGNED TO LIVE TOGETHER.
Led by Kansas City artist Tiffany Zen, Zen eARTh Studios creates original oil and metal leaf paintings, fine art prints, and wearable design inspired by the relationship between humans, animals, and the built environment. Each work is made to live beyond the studio — in homes, on walls, and in motion.
Featured Available Works
A curated selection of original gilded paintings.
Inside the Studio
Each painting begins with layered color fields and hand-applied metal leaf. Gold, silver, and copper surfaces shift with light, creating a shared luminosity between subjects.
Select works are currently exhibited in gallery and curated spaces across Missouri and Massachusetts.
InterUrban Arthouse — Kansas City, MO
Silverstorm Jewelry — Scituate, MA
Amazing Massage — Kansas City, MO
Currently on View
The Shine that Stayed
How Metal Leaf Found Its Way Into My World
For over a decade, metallic paint was my favorite medium, until Syros watercolors and fragile metal leaf changed everything. From a messy first copper attempt still hanging unfinished on my wall to letting the shine become the subject itself, this is the story of how gold, silver, and copper deepened my exploration of animals, architecture, and belonging. Read how the light started to live in the work.
Meet Tiffany
Tiffany Zen is a Kansas City–based artist whose work explores connection between humans, animals, and the spaces they inhabit. Working in oil and hand-applied metal leaf, she creates intimate figurative paintings that shift with light and presence. With a background in architecture and design, her practice bridges structure and softness, permanence and relationship.
