Visions Fugitives Kumquats – Original Signed Ink Painting

Visions Fugitives Kumquats – Original Signed Ink Painting by Java Bere

Inspired by my love of citrus fruits and the fact that I always buy the kumquats when they occasionally pop up in the local fruit and veg shop. These fruits are drawn onto the page of a vintage music book.

Java Bere is an artist, interior and table stylist, writer, and collector of stories. She grew up in a home full of stories and a family of colourful creatives between France, Scotland and the UK, with her daily life often centred around the table – whether it’s a makeshift trestle table, a coffee table found on a street corner, or a wooden cable reel drum repurposed as a dining table.

One of her earliest and most vivid memories of a table is watching her mother decorate the kitchen table with driftwood and a mountain of mangoes, pineapples and melons to celebrate a friend’s birthday – a moment that cemented the kitchen table as a space of creative play and possibility in her mind.

Java is fascinated by domestic rituals, the extraordinary within the everyday, and how creative expression can be found in small, often overlooked moments and objects. These themes are central to her practice as both an artist and workshop leader, with much of her work exploring ideas of home, life around the kitchen table, and the non-linear paths of creativity.

Her work has been featured by the BBC, 91 Magazine, TABLE Magazine and Heiter Magazine.