This original Chinese Brush painting is symbolic of home. This red flower also symbolized passion, women and good fortune.
Azaleas are often a gift to friends and family as well as people from back home.
This flowering bush was one of my mother's favorites and she created a waterfall of varying colors in our hillside gardens back home.
The work is painted on double Xuan Jade Plate rice paper and utilized Chinese mineral paints for colors, Chinese ink is also used in all my paintings.
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