The West Lake in these paintings, with its long levee, small boats and one or two small trees, is explored with a few simple strokes of ink, drawing out the artistic conceptions of the traditional Chinese scholarly ink painting.
畫中的西湖，一道長堤、一葉小舟及小樹一兩株，以簡單幾筆的墨色鉤出，訴說的，已然是中國文人水墨的意境了。