The artist conveyed evening effects in this work, illustrating a scene of a traditional village with women engaging in daily tasks and a man along his way home. He painted with confident strokes, in a palette of subtle colours and tones to create an impression of sunset in the evening. The artist captured the village setting, huts and natural environment with swift brushstrokes. He painted in luminous colour harmonies, using subtle nuances of ochre, greens and mauve which evoke the calmness of a quiet evening. Khaw Sia is perhaps the best trained among the pioneers, with tutelage at Liu Haisu’s Sin Hwa Art Academy in Shanghai (1925-1932) and informal private lessons under British-Scottish watercolourist Sir William Russel Flint in London (1933). Khaw Sia settled in Penang in 1937 and briefly in Hong Kong. He held his first solo in Penang in 1955 and was given a posthumous Retrospective by the Penang State Art Gallery in 1998. His standard was impeccable, as his works were accepted by reputable exhibitions such as the Le Salon Paris in 1956, the Royal Institute Galleries Summer Salon in London in 1957, and the 25th National Society Exhibition in London in 1958.