水墨家园作品展

　　“水墨”是我艺术生涯选择的主要语言方式，也是缘：父亲、山水、中国画的表现……它承载着东方文化的特征。

　　“家园”是我们所处时代和赖以生存的自然，传统文化同样是一种“家园”。当你走进去时，它会给你带来深深的感动和无限的表现空间。艺术家难的是要把这种感动转化为个人化、程式化的绘画语言，这需要用“艺比天大”的态度去感悟、实践，才有可能实现这个转化。父亲讲“千难一易”、“苦学派”、“实者慧”表明了这个过程的艰辛;“学步”、“问道”、“以学为进”是我的坚持;“有无之间”是多年来我在水墨实践中的感悟;“吸纳”、“为我所用”则是我对待外来文化和当代视觉经验的态度。我一直努力把传统与自然、生活连接起来，不断寻觅水墨表现新的可能。

　　我想艺术是从感动开始的，艺术也是生命所经历的岁月的痕迹。当我回顾过去，自己好像是人生旅途的一个行者，作品就是我这个行者在探索的荒途中所做的“活儿”。

　　Foreword

　　Soulful Homeland of Ink-Wash

　　By Li Xiaoke

　　"Ink-Wash" is the primary language of my artistic career choice and is my fate as well, apart from the influence from my father, my passion for the landscape, and the performance of traditional Chinese paintings…Ink-wash carries with it the symbol of our oriental culture.

　　The so-called “homeland” is the times we are in and the nature we are spending life in, while traditional culture is another way of homeland. When you walk in this place, you will be impressed deeply and experience an infinite expression space. What’s challenging the Artists is to transfer this sensation into their personal, stylized works of art, and it requires them to feel and practice with the attitude of “Arts rule out everything”. My father used to describe this tough road as “Easy and Difficult ”, and “Hardworking school”, and “Make down-to-earth efforts to achieve wisdom”. “Learning from ancestors”, “Never stop asking questions” and “Making progress by learning” have always been my beliefs. “Balance between reality and imagination” is the achievement from my experiences in Inks creation over the past years. “Absorbing in” and “Turning to your own advantage” are my attitude towards foreign culture and contemporary visual experience. I have always tried to connect tradition with the nature and the life, in order to constantly search for the new expression of ink-wash art.

　　I believe art stars from impression, and art is the traces of the times that life has gone through. When I look back, I feel like a traveler of life, while my works are what I have been doing on my way of exploring.