One creative world. Many ways to belong.

✳ FIVE SENSES. FIVE ELEMENTS. A MORE ALIVE YOU.

Fall in Love with Creativity & Shape Your World

Tye Johnson · Artist. Educator. Creatress.

Explore soul-stirring art, creative experiences, and adornments that remind you of your power. Reconnect with the creator inside of you, navigate life’s complexities, and imagine new possibilities for your life and the world we share.

Rooted in nature. Created from the heART.
light traveler…FROM RECOGNIZE YOUR LIGHT…
A Little Care for What Hurts, a creative guide by Tye Johnson

A FREE PLACE TO BEGIN

Life gets complicated.
Make a little room for you.

You don’t have to have it all figured out. A Little Care for What Hurts offers 14 gentle creative invitations for heartache, change, and everyday overwhelm. No art experience needed.

Get the free care guide Discover the Natural Creativity Approach™ ↗

CREATIVE WELLBEING. COLLECTIVE POSSIBILITY.

Come back to the life
that’s yours to create.

Our ability to create is proof that we are not powerless.

Find your way through life.

Joy, uncertainty, change, anxiety, grief, heartache—there is room for all of it here. Creativity gives us ways to express what we feel, see things differently, and explore our next step. Nature, the Five Elements, and your senses offer places to begin.

Rest belongs here, too. You don’t have to do more or add another task to your plate. Flowing with your creativity can feel like a reset button—a gentle pause to check in with yourself and support self-regulation.

Reimagine the world we share.

Our power lies in our creative voice. People in positions of power use imagination to shape the world to their benefit. We can use ours to imagine and build outcomes that serve our communities and society as a whole. Through art, stories, and everyday acts of making, we can question what is, envision what could be, and take a step toward it.

We don’t have to meet our ever-changing world (AI, misguided policy, inequity, etc) with fear. We can bring balance through our own creativity: lived experience, feeling, care, and the choices we make. Let’s use that power to create possibilities that benefit the many.

Discover the Natural Creativity Approach™

FROM THE STUDIO OF TYE JOHNSON

Art that makes
you feel something.

Tye Johnson smiling, with sunglasses in her hair and red earrings

Each series is rooted in a heartache I’ve lived through. I turn to nature and the Five Elements to guide me through what hurts, giving my feelings a place in color, texture, and form. In making them, I find new perspectives and possibilities for living. Explore these collections through the Five Elements: each series is gathered under the element it connects with most, while its themes may flow into others.

18 PORTFOLIO COLLECTIONS

A creative world, in all its elements.

The elemental groupings combine Tye’s choices with curatorial interpretations of her portfolio. Each series keeps its own identity. Open a collection to explore the work and the connection.

THE SHOP BY TYE JOHNSON

Carry a little
creative spirit.

A small featured collection of original paintings, prints, and artful everyday pieces from Tyeshiea™. Art and merchandise remain available year-round; explore the full shop whenever you’d like.

Shop All on Tyeshiea™

From the Tyeshiea™ collection. Art for your walls, your wardrobe, and the way you move through the world.

104 PIECES / 3 DECKS COMING SOON

A few favorites for your everyday.

Browse the collection here, then select options and purchase in our Tyeshiea™ Shopify store. Shopify confirms current prices, availability, shipping, and checkout.

Tye Johnson smiling, seated in a black dress
Tye Johnson Artist. Educator. Creatress.

MEET THE HEART BEHIND IT ALL

I’m Tye.
A creative spirit, like you.

I’m a visual artist, teacher, health coach, and intuitive healer. My work brings color, curiosity, and creative expression into the places where we’re ready for something new.

I guide people through life’s ups and downs with creativity, art play, nature, the five senses, and the Five Elements. We reconnect with the creator inside of us, make room for our own voices, and imagine how our gifts can nurture both our lives and the world we share. We build relationships with ourselves, our senses, our creativity, and the materials we explore—with curiosity, tenderness, and time to let trust grow.

Let’s make room for your color.

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FOR SCHOOLS & ORGANIZATIONS

Fresh perspectives.
Stronger connections.

Bring your team together through creative exploration, art play, and shared discovery with heART Strong, led by artist and elementary school art educator Tye Johnson.

Available selectively by inquiry. Limited dates are scheduled around Tye’s teaching calendar.

Plan a Team Workshop

A DISTINCT MISSION. A SHARED CREATIVE HOME.

More expression.
More connection.
More heart.

The nonprofit home for our creative expression programs. Part of this shared website, with a mission and identity of its own.

More heART Foundation nurtures wellbeing, creative voices, and community through art play and the Five Elements. Together, we make space to navigate change in our own lives and imagine possibilities that benefit the world we share.

Begin with Creativi-Tea! Studios, our signature monthly gathering. For a quieter space, request a heART Spahhh appointment. Schools and organizations can inquire about heART Strong workshops.

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MORE HEART FOUNDATION / STAY CONNECTED

Make room for more heart.

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YOUR CREATIVE SPIRIT IS ALREADY HERE.

Let curiosity lead you somewhere new.
Create new life. Make room for new love.

Let curiosity, nature, and creative play help you navigate life’s complexities, see possibilities where you once saw limits, and give shape to the life you long to live.

Make room for a gathering ↗