Artistry • Art • Architecture
Architectural property portraits, illustrated floor plans, garden design, experiential design, collectible artwork, and thoughtfully crafted digital spaces that help people connect more deeply to the environments they inhabit. Through a multidisciplinary approach that blends art, architecture, storytelling, and spatial design, Zen eARTh Studios creates meaningful visual experiences for homes, hospitality spaces, creative businesses, and public environments.
From hand-drawn floor plans for Airbnb properties and real estate marketing to immersive garden concepts designed like living paintings, each project is created with a focus on atmosphere, emotion, and connection to place.
The studio also offers custom website design for artists, boutique brands, and hospitality businesses, along with original gilded artwork, murals, and architectural illustrations that bring warmth, identity, and visual storytelling into physical and digital spaces alike.
Design Services
Property Portraits
Painted architectural illustrations of properties in watercolor, gauche and metal leaf on professional watercolor block paper. Painted on property or by photo.
Paintings 
Illustrated Floor Plans
Hand-drawn floor plans for hospitality, short-term rentals, and real estate spaces that capture the human interaction with the space to help clients understand the environment.
Architectural Design
Garden Design
Designing gardens like living paintings, using plants, color, texture, and natural movement to create beautiful outdoor spaces that feel personal, peaceful, and alive.
Outdoor Environments 
Digital Design
Custom Squarespace websites and visual storytelling for artists, hospitality brands, and creative businesses seeking thoughtful, experience-driven online spaces.
Website Design & BrandingFeatured Design Projects
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![A colorful watercolor painting of a backyard patio with chairs around a fire pit, a house with large windows, and lush green trees and foliage in the background under a partly cloudy sky.]()
Campfire Ranch Property Portrait
While searching for a unique place to celebrate my birthday, I discovered Campfire Ranch and was immediately inspired by its architecture and sense of place. What began as a getaway became an opportunity to create a custom Property Portrait that captures the character, design, and story of this remarkable destination.
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![A detailed floor plan of a residence showing multiple rooms including bedrooms, bathrooms, a lounge, and a kitchen, with labels indicating the main areas.]()
Midtown Airbnb Illustrated Floorplans
For this project, I was tasked with creating hand-drawn architectural floor plans for a three-story Airbnb house. My objective was to convey the concept of a spacious area that can comfortably accommodate multiple guests.
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![View of a backyard patio with a concrete surface and a landscaped flower bed along the fence, containing small plants and mulch, with a wooden fence and trees in the background.]()
Airbnb Garden Design
I was tasked with creating a garden that would enhance the backyard user experience and provide mostly evergreen plants for year-round enjoyment.
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![Illustration of a modern house entrance with steps, glass doors, brick accents, surrounded by lush green trees.]()
Frank Lloyd Wright Property Portrait
I painted the Frank Llyod Wright home as a gift for being invited to a get together at the property and deeply moved to have experienced the space that I wanted too show my gratitude.
Client Reviews
“Tiffany has been absolutely fabulous to work with on every project we have collaborated on.”
— Jeremy M“ A gift like this will be treasured forever. It is now the life of the party.”
— Clarence Sondern Property Owner“Thank you! We are so honored to have your work in the lodge, can't wait to see y'all again soon.”
— Campfire Ranch Little SugarMeet 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.
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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.
Fine Art Collections
Original gilded paintings and mixed media artwork inspired by architecture, nature, memory, and the emotional relationship between people and place. Created with layered textures, luminous materials, and storytelling detail, each piece is designed to bring warmth, atmosphere, and connection into a space.
A luminous original capturing the exhilaration of discovery beneath a canopy of blossoms.
Blooming Wonder holds the moment when curiosity meets light — an upward gaze suspended beneath cascading cherry blooms. The composition carries a sense of openness and quiet joy, balancing movement with stillness in a way that feels both uplifting and grounded.
Hand-applied metal leaf catches and reflects natural light throughout the day, creating a gentle glow that shifts as the room changes. In a thoughtfully composed interior, this piece adds warmth, softness, and a refined sense of depth.
Once collected, it will not be recreated.
Details
• 24″ x 24″ original mixed media painting
• Oil, acrylic, and hand-applied metal leaf
• 1.5″ deep cradled wood panel
• Gold-leafed edges, no frame required
• Signed on back and professionally wired
• One-of-a-kind original
Wild Urban Home, KC series
Where shelter and silence reside amidst iconic form.
Beneath the rolling landscape of the Nelson-Atkins Museum lawn, a family of owls nests quietly amid a setting historically dedicated to human creativity. The museum preserves our collective visual heritage; the owls preserve life itself. In this piece, architecture becomes habitat — a reminder that cultural landmarks and the natural world are not separate but layered within each other. Gold and variegated metal leaf catch light differently depending on the viewer’s position, echoing the shifting ways we experience memory, place, and stillness.
Details
• 9”x12″ original mixed media painting
• Watercolor and hand-applied metal leaf
• 12”x16” bronze metal frame
• Signed on back and professionally wired
• One-of-a-kind original
A luminous original that brings harmony, warmth, and quiet grounding to thoughtfully designed spaces.
Arriving Home celebrates the universal feeling of easing into comfort — that shift from movement to stillness, from the busy outside world into personal sanctuary. Soft yet intentional forms, warm layered tones, and hand-applied metal leaf create a composition that interacts subtly with natural light, inviting the viewer into a moment of ease and reflection.
In interiors where balance and atmosphere matter, this work anchors the space with refined presence and emotional resonance.
Created as a singular original work.
Details
• 24″ x 24″ original mixed media painting
• Oil, acrylic, and hand-applied metal leaf
• 1.5″ deep cradled wood panel
• Gold-leafed edges, no frame required
• Signed on back and professionally wired
• One-of-a-kind original
Why This Work Matters
This piece brings dimensional warmth and visual balance into curated interiors. The layered palette and gleaming accents work with natural light to enrich a room’s atmosphere without overpowering existing design elements. It speaks to quiet moments of rest — not through stillness alone, but through expressive color and thoughtful composition.
It feels both grounded and radiant: a painting that enhances daily life while rewarding deeper viewing over time.
Materials & Process
Created in layered oil and acrylic, each section of metal leaf is applied by hand and sealed for longevity while preserving its reflective qualities. The gallery-depth wood panel provides structural integrity and a clean architectural edge profile, allowing the work to live confidently without a frame.
Placement
Designed to uplift living rooms, bedrooms, and entryways with warmth and intentional presence. Works beautifully alongside warm woods, soft textiles, neutral palettes, and spaces where light, texture, and balance are key design priorities.
Shipping & Pickup
Complimentary standard shipping is available within the United States and Canada.
Each original painting is carefully packaged, fully insured, and shipped from my Kansas City studio within two weeks of purchase.
If you are located outside the US or Canada, please contact me prior to purchasing to discuss international shipping options.
Local studio pickup in Kansas City is available by appointment. After purchase, I’ll coordinate directly with you to schedule a convenient time.
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