“In this village scene there are realistic shadows, as a result of the glowing sunlight, which the artist paints so well in his watercolours. Even Jesus casts a shadow here, as he is fully human in this social situation with simple people of every type turning towards him. The scene is a courtyard with a background of mudbrick walls and touches of tile roof and old thatch on bamboo frames. There are no young women in the crowd around Jesus, although there are several children…Jesus is clothed in a traditional white dhoti with a saffron cotton shawl covering one of his bare shoulders. In his left hand he grips one end of a slender, well-formed wooden yoke as he says to the people, ‘Take my yoke upon you…’” Taken from Frank Wesley: Exploring Faith with a Brush by Naomi Wray