The sad beauty in the paintings of Dao Hai Phong whether the quiet town or the village both shine the hope and have a strong love and passion for the life. The sadness of the past and the hope for the future are expressed through Dao Hai Phong’s distinctive talent, through his using  color and light in the landscape paintings, and especially bright framed-windows. A warm yellow color in the middle night of an autumn evening or silver blue of the city’s ancient thousand-year-old moon appeared in Dao Hai Phong paintings. The special feature in paintings is the way he combines colors, Dao Hai Phong always knows how to combine the glittering colors together to create a symphony of nature and human’s feelings about a domain of deep memories.