～插画家余广达体会梵高。感受梵高

**《梵高：沉浸式体验展》**

在众所期待中，终于来到新加坡了，而且还一票难求。

记得我在英国留学时，总爱跑到National Gallery 和 Tate Gallery欣赏梵高的太阳花和他其它作品。能目睹伟大画家的真迹，心中的那股兴奋是我无法用言语形容的。

我想梵高在动笔画《星空》和《麥田》时，肯定身临其境，感受到了星空和稻草的舞动。他沉浸在大自然中，身体和画笔都随之偏偏起舞，与大自然融为一体，进入了心流状态（即：奇克森特米哈伊·米哈伊所形容的Flow State)以后然后作画。

听说，梵高老爱批评其他画家在画作上加上外来元素。他说:"要画你所看到的，才是真实的，实在的!" 因此，梵高的人缘极差，他一生里，留下2000幅画，只卖出一幅画而已。

他勇于追寻自己的梦想，勇于追寻自己的艺术。。。却落得孤独一人，没什么朋友，也沒有爱人。除了弟弟的支持以外，他几乎没有知音，一生穷困潦倒。

当没有人了解他的内心时，他是多么地痛苦和悲伤的啊。

就这样，他最后因为神经错乱而自杀。也许他觉得这样就可以不再痛苦，重获自由。

正如星空 Vincent 的歌词里所写:

Now, I understand, what you tried to say to me

How you suffered for your sanity

How you tried to set them free

They would not listen, they did not know how

Perhaps they'll listen now.

我一直非常欣赏梵高的画。这次观看《梵高：沉浸式体验展》，我犹如穿越时空，通过现代科技进入了梵高的艺术世界里。

通过重新诠释梵高的画和加入新元素，我也深深地体会和感受了梵高的内心。因此，将此次线上展命名为《体会梵高。感受梵高》。

梵高处于人生低谷的时候，哪怕没钱没地方住，却仍旧画出一幅幅色颜鲜明的世界名画。

他给我的启示是我们总是能够在最黑暗的角落点一盏灯，在最淒寒的路上，生一堆火。

最后，邀请大家点击以下网址，

欣赏我的《体会梵高。感受梵高》线上展览：

www.yeepatrick.com

Gallery: Vangoghpyexhibition-3

谢谢大家

亞娇的画 Ah Kui's Art

我母亲的那些花儿 - Flower still life by my mother

Next year in 2023, my mother Kwang Ah Kui will be 90 years old. Since coming to Singapore from Kaiping, China at 12, mother devoted herself to caring for her parents-in-law, husband, seven children and grandchildren. All her life, mother busied herself with the needs of the big household and had only started to find time for herself to paint now.

Mother, who is illiterate, can only write the date referencing the calendar, and sign her signature using her thumb print. Mother was frugal and was only willing to use the leftover coloured pencils and drawing paper from her grandchildren, although she had all my fine art materials at her disposal.

Every time after completing an artwork, she always sat up like an eager school girl and asked:

"Ah-Da (my name in Chinese), what do you think of my drawing?"

Mother hoped that I would offer her some feedback.

My elder sister would affirm mother of a job well done, and then asked me to amend it for her. I reckoned if I had make corrections, it would not have been my mother’s original painting.

Smilingly, I would affirm my mother that if that was what she truly wanted to express, then it was already by itself perfect and complete.

Upon hearing this, mother’s wrinkled face would light up with a hint of pride and a deep sense of contentment.

Actually, I had never formally taught my mother how to draw. It was always through observing me that my mother learnt to make her own art.

She once told me: "Ah-Da, you know what, my mother-in-law never taught me how to make traditional pastries. I had just secretly watched her and learned it myself. "

My mother is a kind and simple woman who has no concept of money or fame. She only wanted to paint what she liked to paint. Hence in my heart, I feel my mother is a true artist.

This Mother's Day, I decided to curate an art exhibition for her on my website for more people to view and connect with my mother through her art.

I would also like to take this opportunity to wish all mothers a Happy Mother's Day.