Gilded Paintings

Original Paintings designed to live together on your walls.

ART. ANIMALS. ARCHITECTURE.

DESIGNED TO LIVE TOGETHER.

My work explores intimate coexistence between humans, animals, and the places they inhabit. Hand-applied metal leaf and layered paint invite quiet reflection and presence in every piece.

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Featured Available Works

A curated selection of original gilded paintings.

Quiet at Home 12x16” Quiet at Home 12x16”
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Blooming Wonder - 24x24 Blooming Wonder - 24x24
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Arriving Home 36x36 Arriving Home 36x36
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Gilded Hanami - 24x24” Gilded Hanami - 24x24”
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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.

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

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Currently on View

Wild Urban Homes KC

When Kansas City’s Art in the Loop announced the theme Home, I began wondering where belonging truly lives. In Quiet at Home, a family of owls nest beneath the Nelson-Atkins Museum lawn — where architecture and wildlife quietly share the same ground.

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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.

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