Xu Hua Xin’s art reflects his years of searching to express the purity and softness of white snow amidst the crystalline hardness of the mountains. The magnificence and steely resolve of his mountains contrasts with the softness of snow and the quiet reserve of water. The gentle brook defiantly carves its way through the snow; the mountains act as a backdrop to the placid quietude of the winter lake. Mist-coloured mountains suggest a furtive, ephemeral shifting of the landscape.