Coffee Art Prints by Ingela Johansson | Painted with Real Coffee

Each piece in this collection is painted with real coffee blended with ink — espresso, cold brew, and even my grandmother's boiled coffee, each giving its own depth and warmth. What began in Singapore in 2014 continued in 2024 during a live painting residency at Gamla Kraftstationen in Deje.

These artworks capture the ritual of fika — the small pauses for coffee that bring comfort and connection into everyday life. Painted quickly and intuitively with a soft ink brush, each piece is spontaneous and full of life, on watercolor paper in natural, earthy tones.

Bring a piece of this ritual into your home — art created one cup at a time.

A painting with a scent

Painting with coffee

Watch how each piece begins — quick, instinctive, and impossible to repeat. The moment ink and coffee touch handmade paper, they bleed and settle in ways that can't be redone or corrected. It's a practice that asks you to stay completely in the moment.

I work only with Chinese brushes, and everything is done by hand. This piece was made with espresso — its warmth and depth is different from what a cold brew or instant coffee piece gives. There's something about painting with coffee that a print alone can't capture: the actual scent of it rising as you work. (However I can't promise that the scent last forever on the originals.)

There are more pieces in the studio than what's live here. If you'd like to see more, or commission one of your own, reach out — Swedishartanddesign@gmail.com