Landscape Chinese Scroll Painting – Silk Wall Art – Sunshine Green Forest

This landscape scroll painting holds the sunshine green forest theme the way a good poem holds its subject: lightly, and completely. The picture's rhythm is slow and deliberate, in the manner of the old schools. Among pieces of elegant chinese wall scroll, this is the quiet kind: balanced, calm, and easy to live with.

Sunshine seems to fall across the scene, brightening the silk itself. In the middle distance, the cliffs anchors the painting's sense of place. The waterfall is painted as a falling ribbon of pale silk against the dark rock. The palette runs bright and varied, a celebration in mineral pigment. Drawn with economical strokes, the green forest keeps the scene grounded and honest. The red flowers settles naturally into the scene, balanced against the larger forms. The painter stacks mountain upon mountain, letting atmosphere do the binding. The water is left mostly blank, silk standing in for the river's surface.

Collectors of traditional chinese wall art will recognize the vocabulary at once: restraint, balance, and a feel for the natural world. It makes a thoughtful gift for anyone who keeps a soft spot for classical art. Give it wall space and it will repay the attention.