Xu Zhimo willow tree, King's College  

Jean Bacon, 2017

Xu Zhimo Festival, 2016

In August 2016 I contributed a watercolour to the Xu Zhimo Poetry and Art Festival in King's. I was asked to paint a watercolour on each of the scrolls containing the signatures of the festival attendees. I added the willow tree in King's, near the calligraphy stele celebrating part of Xu Zhimo's famous poem about Cambridge. See scroll 1 and scroll 2.

This led to a project to draw and paint the willow tree.

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