Mother's Love

I always paint landscape and find it a great challenge to paint people because it is difficult to translate the person's feelings and expression into the picture.

This is a bold attempt and it took me about 5 months to complete (just finished on 9 June 2008). I'm trying to capture the bonding expression between the mother and her baby...showing the nature of a mother's tender love for her young.

This woman is probably from the minority ethnic group in China, based on her colorful head-scarf. She may be a farmer's wife who also works in the field because she is rather tanned.

I hope you'll like this piece, entitled, "Mother's Love", especially dedicated to all the wonderful mothers!