马天骐的画让人耳目一新，很有独到之处。特别是他画的鸡，赋予了人的丰富情感和生活内涵，能够引起人们的共鸣，产生令人心动的艺术感染力和亲和力。画家笔下的每一个生灵，充分渗透了画家对所表现的客观事物的生命情感，体悟了自然与造化之道，达到了情境与意境的完美展现。  
　　古往今来，中国画大凡成功之作，无不是情境与意境的完美结合。唐代诗人白居易言：“感人心者，莫先乎情。”唐人王昌龄说诗有三境：“物境，情境，意境。”诗如是，中国画亦然。马天骐深悟其道，以对生活长期的深入体验和真切感受，以对表现物象的真情实感，以深厚的笔墨功力修养，创造了一个个情景交融、意趣相映的艺术形象和审美情境。
　　情境与意境美学，作为中国水墨画的一个创作指导原则，一个长期追求的艺术境界，在马天骐的作品中得到了充分体现。他在每一幅画作中，都注重营造情境，精心表达意境，托物言志，以物寄情，把心灵空间的写意与表现物理空间的画意巧妙地结合起来，相互契合，相得益彰。
　　中国水墨画情境与意境的表现，是笔墨本体与画家本性的高度融合。正如清代著名书画评论家石涛所言：“画受墨，墨受笔，笔受腕，腕受心。”马天骐把笔墨作为抒发主观情感的载体，以意运笔，以情入画，在虚与实、疏与密、浓与淡、墨与彩之间，尽情地展现他心中的美好家园，给人以仿佛置身于大自然的审美感受。

2008年4月19日

　　Ma Tianqi’s paintings have unique characters giving a new and fresh sense. Especially the chickens he paints offering abundant emotion and life connotation, can bring resonance and produce moved artistic appeal and affinity. Each creature fully penetrates the emotion of the painter to the objective expressed things, expresses the relations between nature and good fortune and also achieves the perfect presentation between feeling and artistic conceptions.
　　From the history, there is not any successful Chinese painting works presented without feeling-conception and artistic-conception perfectly. Bai Juyi, a poet in Tang dynasty, said: “Affecting emotion is more advanced than moved heart”. Wang Changling, a poet in Tang dynasty, said: “There are three realms in the poem, thing-conception, feeling-conception and artistic-conception”.  Poems are like this, so are the Chinese paintings. Understanding it, Ma Tianqi creates the artistic images and aesthetic situations with integration of feeling and scenery.
　　As one creative guiding principle of Chinese wash painting, feeling-conception and artistic-conception, an artistic realm pursued for a long-term, are fully presented in the works of Ma Tianqi. He pays more attention to create feeling-conception, to express artistic-conception carefully and to combine the freehand brushwork of mind space with picturesque conception of physical space ingeniously.
　　The expressions of feeling-conception and artistic-conception in Chinese wash painting are highly integrated with pen and ink in itself and the nature of painters. Just as says of Shi Tao, a famous painting and calligraphy critic in Qing dynasty: “Painting restricted by ink, ink restricted by pen, pen restricted by wrist and wrist restricted by heart”. Using pen and ink as a carrier to express his subjective emotion, Ma Tianqi expresses the beautiful homeland in his mind completely and bring people the aesthetic experience in nature between virtual and actual, thin and thick, dark and light, black and color. 

19th, April. 2008