Gerard Toni: Putting the TEA in art

These masterpieces are created using different blends of tea and coffee, painting life-like portraits set in cafe environments.

Gerard Toni, 38, began working with coffee and teas six years ago after taking inspiration from fabric dying using the hot drinks in Asian cultures.

Mr Toni's work is all inspired from the coffee house, as he believes both the scene and the colours coffee and tea create on a canvas work well together.

Each piece takes several painstaking months to complete, as Gerard has to order in flavoured teas from around the world.