西部長風揭地起

河北滄州人氏李秀峰，是當今國畫界令人關注的幾位中年女畫家之一。她的人性中透出純凈憨厚、誠實率真、不事張揚的品格，她的繪畫風格潑辣凝重、奔放典雅、瀟灑古樸、激越娟麗，她的繪畫題材是她所熟悉和熱愛的藏民風情、漢唐遺韻和西部山川。品秀峰的畫，可謂無處不真、無處不善、無處不美，這真善美的標志，是用她人格魅力和真摯情感鍛造出來的精神舍利——西部風情繪畫。

秀峰生于河北交河，是父母“支援西北”建設和自己的軍旅生涯使得這位華北姑娘結緣于河西走廊，可以說她是伴隨著“平沙莽莽黃入天”、“孤城遙望玉門關”的壯闊而蒼茫的邊塞詩境一路走來的。這里是中華文化永不枯竭的活水源頭，是大西北的名山大川、荒漠古月、佛窟壁畫、殘城彩陶還有那悠揚的駝鈴聲，陶冶著她那青春的情懷和畫家的靈性。從謙謙學子到戍邊的軍人，再由軍人到畫家，她心中唯一的希望是在自己的品格中多一些淳樸善良，在謙和中透著真誠。50年的西部情結，使她悟到自己作為一名畫家兼美術干部安身立命的標準與原則，也使她尋找到了自己的精神家園和哲學歸宿。

從她的繪畫作品看，在用筆方面頗有一種巾幗不讓須眉之氣勢。她膽氣過人，筆墨酣暢，在用墨用色的天地里表現得更是從容不迫，游刃有余。無論是淋漓的潑墨還是色墨互破都運用得相得益彰，潑辣而不失嚴謹，奔放而不失柔潤，厚重而不失空靈，古拙而不失娟秀，大氣而不失精微，表現出女畫家特有的敏捷和嫻熟的表現力。她的畫之所以感人，正是由于畫家的人品與畫家的胸襟能痛快酣暢地在其筆墨中得以真實地表現。

李秀峰的畫，其學養、品格、情操，意趣不僅在畫內，更在畫外，如在其畫前靜心細品個中三昧能體味到畫家博大深沉的人格魅力和若谷虛懷。

李秀峰現為甘肅省美術家協會專職副主席、甘肅國畫院院長、中國美術家協會會員、國家一級美術師，其作品先后20余次入選由中國美協主辦或聯合主辦的全國性大展，多次獲獎，并榮獲國家“當代中國畫杰出人才獎”。

Female Master Paints the West

By Jiang Ye

Li Xiufeng has ancestral roots in Hebei Province in north China， but her fifty years in Gansu Province has turned her into an outstanding artist of China’s wild western essences. In fact， she is one of the few outstanding women artists in China today.

Her parents migrated to the west in the country’s “go west”project in the early 1950s and Li was in the military service herself in the west. China’s west was where the Chinese culture prospered in the remote history and her paintings are reflections of this great west.

Artistically， Li Xiufeng is best known for the way she applies the inky colors which create harmonious contrasts in her traditional-styled modern paintings. The images she paints are forceful and precise， ebullient and soft， massive and flexible and unpredictable， unsophisticated and beautiful， powerful and fine. All this combines to display her sensitivity and mastery as a female artist in Chinese west.

At present， among other titles and art honors， Li is vice president of the Gansu Artists Association， president of the Gansu Academy of Traditional Chinese Paintings.

(Translated by David)