Painting: Deep Autumn

The artist Ms. Zhang Cuiying is an internationally acclaimed Chinese artist living in Australia. From an early age, Ms. Zhang was nurtured and taught by well-known Chinese masters, in the respected discipline of traditional Chinese brush painting. Her works have been extensively published throughout China. One of many honours includes the Asia-Pacific Gold Medal for Chinese Calligraphy and Painting.

Ms. Zhang is an Australia Citizen, and has been a tireless ambassador for human rights, since the conclusion of her eight-month long experience of torture and incarceration in Chinese prisons, for peacefully appealing the communist regime's persecution of Falun Gong. This painting won second prize in the national exhibition held by the press of "Book and Painting" in 1986. The title of the painting is named with a Tang poem. Han Wo is a famous poet in the Tang dynasty. His poems imply deeper feelings and emotions without writing them down. He can express his feelings in a profound way with the description of the environment, such as his poem "Already Cold".

The artist tries to achieve the result and sensation of expressing the deep emotion in a subtle way by drawing a maple tree, mat and a thin quilt. A lady in ancient dress sitting by the bed deep in thought.