Christian allusions abound in this mock William Blake-inspired Romantic arcadian idyll of overhanging buds with a gnome in flower, done with typical British humour. There is a double play on opposite banks with a pair of unclothed figures on the far side obviously bored with doing nothing, Adam and Eve?, and on the near side, two donkeys one towering over the other linking birth and death? The one on all fours seems to be braying over some obscure triumph, while the one lying on its back isn’t really at a disadvantage. The lowly donkeys, known for carrying Christ into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday and baby Christ (in womb of Mother Mary) to Bethlehem, are strapped with some skimpy outfit. G.K. Chesterton paid tribute to the dumb donkey in his poem, The Donkey. Peter Harris, dubbed the ‘White Tiger’, is best known for creating a semblance of art education as art superintendent of the Federation of Malaya from 1951 to December 1960. He later headed the Sabah Teachers Training College (Gaya College) in Sabah (1962-1967). He is best known for founding the Wednesday Art Group (WAG) in 1952. He was accorded a Retrospective by the National Art Gallery in 1960, and The Art Gallery (Penang) in 1997 besides a Memorial Tribute in Kuala Lumpur in 2009. He made a huge impact when invited back in 1996 for the WAG Then and Now reunion exhibition at GaleriWan, Kuala Lumpur. Peter Harris was awarded an MBE (Member, Order of the British Empire) by Queen Elizabeth II in 1963. His art education was at the West of England College of Art (1939), and he taught at the College Art School in Swindon (1947) and in the 1970s, the Sheldon School in Chippenham.