In contemporary painting circles，Liu Qinghe is that kind of talented but diligent painter. For over 20 years，he has never been content to progress and achievements gained in various stages，but constantly pursued artistic proficience and advancement，including experimental exploration of ink and wash language，as well as changes and development of artistic concepts.

　　Totally speaking，Liu Qinghe has been devoted to the possibility of ink and wash language to cut into the contemporaneity for years，which may first need a standing as contemporary people to concern the reality and to feel realistic ways and angles. What is Liu Qinghe special for is that，in the hugest context of the urbanized China reality，he wanders as on the scene with an attitude seemingly neither friendly nor aloof to reality;he not only approaches the actuality of life and observes lots of specific things and people in daily life，but also keeps certain distance from the truth and returns back to express feelings from experiences in the narration of the painting. People and scenes in his works show characteristics with chanciness and inevitability coexisting and express subtly the integration of individualized state and collective foreordination.

　　His latest works of“The Other Side of the Bank”series typically show his artistic state. To me，“the other side of the bank”means distance. He seems to keep himself a little way from many things，including reality commonly felt by people，existing artistic way of expression and things he yearns for. Such a distance is hard to be defined with length measurement，but is a psychological or conceptual distance，a kind of observation and taste with distance. Therefore，people under his brush show both“normal states”in daily life scenes and“heteromorphic states”surpassing daily life scenes which can only be apperceived by nerve end.

　　Also in ink and wash language，Liu Qinghe keeps distance away from traditional and academic ink and wash shaping ways，from non-ink-and-wash system beyond. All the time he regards ink and wash as a kind of spiritual feeler，seemingly has regular approaches in using brush，ink，wash and watercolour，but actually deviates from the modes already existing，sensibly and sharply points at experiencing comprehension. Ink and wash become a kind of sensible language to help express the reality he senses.

作者：Fan,Di’an