Artist: LIU XIAONING (劉曉寧)

Series：The Gaze Upon Tibet

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Theme: Daily Perseverance and Conflict in the Wind and Snow

Canvas Size: $52$$\times 37\text{ cm}$ ($20.5\times 14.6\text{ in}$)

Framed Size: $70$$\times 50\text{ cm}$ ($27.6\times 19.7\text{ in}$) ready to hang 

Creation Year: 2022

Frame: Aluminum Alloy Frame(Ready to Hang)

Artwork ID: MBA-2025-019

Authenticity: Original · One of a Kind · Signed Certificate of Authenticity

The Home Within Reach, this painting is a highly representative and dramatically charged work from Liu Xiaoning's The Gaze Upon Tibet Series. It visually captures the stark, challenging reality of daily life in Tibet, centered on a moment of micro-conflict between humanity and nature. Against a backdrop of ominous clouds and impending snow, the female herder, the visual anchor of the piece, struggles to guide her yak herd home as part of her daily labor.

The emotional core lies in the dynamic tension: the herd generally heads towards the camp (the "Home Within Reach"), yet one notably stubborn yak stands defiant, directly opposing the herder. The artist uses his Minimalist Romanticism to heighten the tension between the immediate, tangible goal of home and the current obstacles (the weather and the animal's defiance). This scene of daily perseverance and opposition is the most authentic depiction of life on the plateau.