Watercolour on canvas, stretched and ready to hang.

Signed on the front.

As a Chinese artist who has lived in the Western world for over forty years, The artist has noticed and is very much concerned about the fact that many Westerners do not appreciate the beauty of the way in which traditional Chinese paintings are mounted and framed for display and would deem that at least paintings on canvas stretched on a wooden frame are decent enough for wall decoration. This is actually one of the reasons for the artist to have started the experiment on using canvas as the medium of traditional Chinese paintings. He does find that traditional Chinese paintings on stretched canvases have their own grace and elegance and are just as lovable as any traditional Chinese paintings that are done on paper and are mounted and framed in the old fashioned way. If they are further mounted and framed then it will certainly be perfect.
The artist regards using canvas as the media for traditional Chinese painting and calligraphy as an amalgamation of the East and West. It is not an amalgamation in the way of mixing the skills and/or subjects of the arts that are originated from the two different cultures but in the way of using a Western platform to channel Eastern art. It is a kind of novelty that would help non-Chinese viewers to enjoy traditional Chinese painting and calligraphy readily and comfortably. It is a kind of novelty that would help Westerners feel more intimate with the relatively strange and alien traditional art of the Chinese people. It is a kind of novelty that would hopefully help people from the two cultures grow in harmony through the cultivation of mutual respect and appreciation by the means of art appreciation.