Landscape Chinese Scroll Painting – Silk Wall Art – Red Maple Seal Temple

This landscape scroll painting approaches the red maple seal temple theme the way the old schools did: with balance and breath. The picture's rhythm is slow and deliberate, in the manner of the old schools. Among pieces of asian wall decor, this is the quiet kind: balanced, calm, and easy to live with.

Characters in flowing script share the silk with the painting, as tradition demands. A small red seal adds warmth to the monochrome scheme. Pines stand in clusters, their needle masses dabbed in with a dry brush. Falling water provides the one note of motion in an otherwise still world. In the middle distance, the temple anchors the painting's sense of place. Layered mountains rise through the composition, their forms softened by distance. The river is a band of pale wash, calm and unbroken. The red maple adds a quiet accent, handled in the old manner of the brush.

It keeps good company with the finest serene chinese wall decor, the kind that rewards daily looking. It is the kind of piece guests ask about, and owners never tire of answering. Give it wall space and it will repay the attention.