Silk, ink, and the maple temple theme: this flower and bird scroll painting keeps to the essentials. The ink settles into the silk with a softness that keeps every edge gentle. As a piece of ink wash painting, it reads clearly from across the room and keeps giving on closer inspection.
The inscription, brushed with confidence, completes the picture's classical grammar. The maple adds a quiet accent, handled in the old manner of the brush. Water plunges from the heights, rendered in thin, vertical strokes. The temple adds a quiet accent, handled in the old manner of the brush. Mountains gather in the upper reaches of the scroll, dissolving into pale wash.
Hung in a study or living room, this oriental wall hanging changes the room's temperature without raising its voice. The scroll format itself is part of the pleasure: art that unrolls like a story. It sits as happily in a modern loft as in a traditional study.
