我的绘画是从风景画起步的。哪怕是现在一把年纪了，在回忆绘画生涯时，还会回忆起许多少年时期写生的场景。风景对于我们的成长都是一个学步，我不知道现在是怎么看待风景的。当时画风景，对于自然，对于气候，对于所描绘的对象的感受，都是发自内心的。而且现在还记着，像油菜花、一抹夕阳、朝霞、满天的星星，或者门缝的一道光，印象都特别地深。特别是各个季节的气氛，甚至于气息，都能在风景画中闻到、感受到。

通过画风景，养成了观察身边环境的习惯，比如注重人对季节的感受。像我画一些老镇、田野，自然就培养了对自然的亲近感。雷雨之前，雷雨之后，春天的雨，冬天的雨，秋天的雨，下雪，打霜，由于平时的训练，对这些现象特别敏感，并不是多穿件衣服或者少穿件衣服这种简单的适应，能感觉到的是季节对人的情感、情绪上的触动，就很想一画。

风景画建立了人与自然很亲切、很自然的交流关系。

我早期的风景画训练在背景、氛围上对现在画画有很大的帮助。

My art began with landscape painting. Though I am getting old, when I think about my career, I will recall the scenes of making sketches as a boy. Land- scape was our apprenticeship, and I do not know how we view it today. At that time, my perception of nature, climate and subjects was spontaneous. I still remember how I was profoundly impressed by rape flowers, sunset, morning glow, stars, or a ray of light from the crack of a door. I can smell the atmosphere, even aroma of each season in the landscapes.

I was accustomed to observing my environment and taking note of our perception of seasons by painting landscape. I feel an affinity with nature by painting old towns and land. I become sensitive about natural phenomena in the daily artistic practice before and after a rainstorm, about rainfall in spring, winter, autumn, about snow and frost. It is not simple adap- tation like putting on more or less clothes, I also feel touched emotionally by the seasons, thus getting uniquely inspired.

Landscape painting establishes for us a familiar rap- port with nature. My early practice in landscape is beneficial to a grasp of background and atmosphere.