我是个幸运儿，在北方生活的时候拥有四季变化的北国风光；拥有辽阔的草原风景；拥有大兴安岭的秋色与冬雪。来到南方又拥有了亚热带丰富的植物，拥有了阳光、沙滩、大海和碧蓝的天空……正因为我喜欢自己生活过的周边风景，才会一往情深地投入到风景创作中去。初到南方的海滨城市厦门，一切都是陌生的，新奇的，让我感到新鲜的是在这里——亚热带风景中有许多高大的树木都是开花结果的，而且种类繁多，色彩丰富，如：高大的棕榈树、诱人的木棉花，枝叶花朵布满天空的凤凰树，多彩的三角梅，盛开的紫荆花，还有诸多不知名的植物是如此的丰富多彩。这在北方是无从想象的，阅历的浅薄限制了创作灵感的来源，更无法展开想象的翅膀，所以说灵感是源于对生活深刻的感悟和阅历的积累。
　　我以为灵感不是刻意求得的，也不是在常态中偶得，它是在有意中追求，在松弛的无意识状态下产生的，当对生活的感受多起来后灵感也就随之产生。中国唐代画家张璪的名言“外师造化，中得心源”给了我深刻的启示。也许是因自己喜欢中国传统艺术的缘故，在自己的创作中或多或少有了想象的色彩和对理想境界的追求，这或许就是中国传统文化精神的遗传吧！
　　受东方艺术影响下的西方艺术家也有类似的思想，就像纳比派画家德尼在评论高更的作品时所言：“……把自然移植到智慧与想象的领域之中”，在这个“领域”有更自由的空间让我去想象去表现。
　　《风景——厦门大学》（1998年）、《夏日海滨》（1999年）、《春》、《花季》（1998年）等一系列创作是我来厦门三年后的作品。它是我对亚热带生活的感受，也是孤独探索后的一点收获。人与自然相比显然是太渺小了，大自然的气候、环境会时时刻刻影响着人们的精神状态。在这里，温和的气候，夏日的海风，松软的沙滩会使人松弛、清爽、休闲，炎热的天气又使人困顿、懒散；一年四季中满眼花果树木又让人心花怒放，古老的厦门大学的校园建筑的造型与色彩积淀了中西文化的精神。丰富的亚热带植物，自由的学术氛围，亚热带温暖的阳光便是我这一系列风景创作的灵感来源。
　　校园中的风景十分入画，在烈日暴晒下低垂的棕榈树叶，梅雨季节留下的青苔，红绿相间的新叶，在春雨过后开放的鲜嫩的棕榈花穗处处散发着亚热带特有的自然气息，无不使人心情舒畅。尤其令我惊奇的是有些新叶是先从紫红色逐渐演变成绿叶，这在北方看来该是秋天的色彩，而在这里却是春天发芽的新叶。当我置身于大海之中时，更是心旷神怡，近看透明的蓝绿色大海令人心醉，在海上飘摇之中会有许多遐想。远望金色的沙滩与白紫色浪花像一条闪烁的黄白相间的彩链，镶嵌在“蓝宝石”上，使大海格外夺目。我想只要用心去与江海湖泊交流，细心品味它的变化，它就会赐予你创作灵感。
　　I am a lucky fellow. When living in North China, I enjoyed the northern seasonal sceneries. I embraced the vast prairie, the autumnal scene and the winter snow in the Greater Xing'an Mountains. After settling down in South China, I have the colorful subtropical plants, the sunshine, the beach, the sea and the blue sky......It is my deep love of the environment that makes me so devoted to landscape painting. When I first came to Xiamen, a southern coastal city, everything struck me as new: the very big subtropical trees with full blossoms and fruits, and also in striking colors. For example, the tall palm, the captivating silk cotton, the flamboyant flame tree with full-blown flowers, the colorful bougainvilleas, the brilliant Chinese redbud, and also many other unknown plants—they are all so bright and attractive. The scene is unimaginable in North China. The previous limited experiences narrowed my inspiration, not to say firing my imagination, therefore I believe that inspiration can only be obtained from deep understanding of life and the accumulation of experience.
　　I think inspiration can be got neither from calculated pursue or accidental effort, it can only come to you under a relaxed state of unconsciousness through your conscious quest. In other words, when we have experienced much in our life, the inspiration comes naturally. As the Chinese painter Zhangzao in Tang Dynasty said, "The master teaches the trade, but the apprentice's achievement is self-made." Whose words benefit me a lot. Perhaps it is because of my love of traditional Chinese arts that I quest for imagination and ideal more or less in my paintings. Maybe this is the inheritance of Chinese traditional culture.
　　Those western artists who are influenced by eastern art have similar ideas. Just like the French Nabi Painter Maurice Denis once commented on Ganguin's works, "......transplant nature into the field of wisdom and imagination", I have more freedom to imagine, to present myself in this field.
　　My paintings "Scenery-Xiamen University" (1998), "The Seashore in Summer" (1999), "Spring", "In Blossom" (1998) etc. were painted after I had come to Xiamen for three years. They tell my feelings towards the subtropical life, and they are also some rewards for my lonely exploration. How trivial is man compared with nature! The climate and the environment of nature affect man's spiritual states in every moment. The mild climate, the summer sea wind and the soft sandy beach make me relaxed; the cool, comfortable or hot weather make me sleepy and sluggish; and the flowers, fruit and trees around the four seasons make me burst with joy. Besides, the shapes and the colors of the traditional buildings on the campus of Xiamen University present both the western and the eastern culture. In general the varied subtropical plants, the free academic circumstances and the warm sunshine are the sources of my inspiration for the series of my landscape paintings.
　　Every bit of the campus scenery is worth painting: the foliage of the palm trees hanging low under the scorching sun, the green moss produced by intermittent drizzles, the tender leaves in red and green check, and the fresh palm flowers coming out after the spring rain, sending forth the subtropical flavor — all of these enlighten and brighten people's hearts. What is more amazing is that some tender leaves sprout from purplish red and then turn green. This seems an autumn scene which appears to be spring sprouts in the South. When in the sea, I am even more relaxed and joyful. The bright blue sea is transparent in close shot, making me enchanted and inducing my fantastic reveries. The golden beach and the white-purple waves shining in a distance are like a yellow and white necklace inlaid into a sapphire, dazzling our eyes. I think as long as I can talk with nature by heart and savor attentively its changes, it will bestow me the artistic inspiration.