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文：庄梦轩

已八十岁的新加坡成功资深艺术家王春鑫，近年虽然病重调养中，可是却对艺术的坚贞衷情一生不变，犹如他对于2019年爱妻郑奇音逝世深情的不舍和纯美柔情的怀念，如画的诗境，每天和爱妻谈话，每两天都有一束芬芳馥郁的一束粉红色玫瑰花插在骨灰甕前，只为坚守那彼此曾经的约定，百年后将与爱妻的骨灰撒在大海或于新加坡最新辟可同栽种花朵的土地共享绽放美丽的春天。

采访时听他述说一生感动人心的故事。一个老艺术家，诠释他内心深处撼人内心深处的“此情永不变，以示长相守”令人肃然起敬世俗中少有散发纯朴衷心永恒有爱天地。

王春鑫 ，1943 出生新加坡。1949 曾和母亲返回中国海南岛定居十多年，包括求学。而后于1958 返回新加坡。后入读南洋美专。毕业后从事商业美术不断继续创作生涯。70年代他应用水彩、水粉及油画作画。频频呈现卓越才情于画坛。且荣获很多收藏家的喜爱。80年代则改用水彩和丙烯混合于水彩纸或丙烯画在油画布上。他感悟表示“我一生追求的画艺，当它是人生的目标，一生的工作；我的生命。”

王春鑫风格突出的风景画作，流动着扎实朴拙无华浓厚诗意和宁静致远静谧天地，令人惊赞。静谧深邃美与丰厚的精神语言风景画作，一路来都受各界收藏家的青睐感动赞好。几乎每场联展与个展，王春鑫画家几乎都是佼佼者呈现的创作是他掌握彩笔的回归，风景物象中平凡中见神奇，平淡中现微细真相，平实里显圆满境界，那神来之笔，或偶来之笔丰硕哲思追求的意境是认真探索鲜明在他的画面上浮现。绽放了其艺术生命的充沛。

观赏其精选佳作，视觉心绪自然落入于他画面回旋的诗意中。如印象深刻的大研古城、丽江山寨、梯田、石板屋的古道，枯树风姿，山野，远处飘逸的柳树，微风轻吹的高挂红灯笼窗外 ，也包括棕色系列抑或墨绿色原野山景和蓝色系如《金马仑 》、《乡境 》、《法国诺曼底》、《纽西Kikapo》系列》、《早晨》、《乡野》、《捷克》很唯美诗意盎然的作品。王春鑫作品风格既是高度内心意境的升华诠释与风景映像心象系列。旧迹古屋长长的回廊，石板砖上的人们，远处柳絮在摇曳，厚涂斑剥肌里墙面上有高耸的古塔，寻寻觅觅，层层叠叠中无限空间在伸展。色调是古朴大自然的棕色系，绿色系，蓝色与微亮白色的光影在交融；活泼动感笔触，擦，点染技巧自如的运用。那是画家用心灵与自然沟通的画语；令观赏者无形间跌入欲穿透于画境。他也画不少新加坡河景，马来西亚的渔村港口山林乡景，有些或古意墙垣；爬满藤树，悠然延伸的古树，或东南亚巴厘岛石窟佛像，扭曲枝干在蓊郁的古树下，恒之不变的蓝天，广场上的鸽子漫飞，池边……丰富多姿作品特点，即他自我开拓运用水彩和丙烯混合创作。无形提高作品的肌理效果和质感；那气韵深远意境延续其作品的量感。他富古朴宁静深邃的景色，蕴含辽阔淡远的气度。恒之不变，令人悸动。

王春鑫其实过去足迹满天下。每到一个可以作画的景点，他都会写生纪录，也拍摄各国美景角度储存。回画室后再静谧投入营造创作。他是我多年艺坛礼敬的老友，他这次和我说他为调养身体，已不接见外人，但唯一指定选择接见我探访他，因为我是他们夫妻多年的真挚好友。令我受宠若惊很感动。

王春鑫画家五十多年在艺术道路上是一个忠恳踏实精进不懈的画家。此次的采访我们不免痛哭怀念他不舍的爱妻郑奇音，也是我多年的知心好友，他在认真讲解正在为爱妻拟好的一系列创作。尤其云南丽江行留下的美好的印象之旅系列。他是认真纯美把艺术和爱情与生命融为一体理想的实践家，也成功却不忘回馈社会热心把个人一些作品和爱妻留下的存款几十万捐赠给教育界，净化习性的单纯心灵里，深藏的是一颗真、善、美的心，深远无限；光辉灿烂空旷辽远光明自在。

Text: Becky Choong

Wan Soon Kam, an octogenarian senior successful artist from Singapore, has been recuperating from illness in recent years. However, his steadfast passion for art has remained unchanged throughout his life, just like his deep affection and pure loving memory for his beloved wife Ms Teh Kee Yum, who passed away in 2019. It is like a poetic landscape in a painting. He talks to his wife every day, and places a bouquet of fragrant pink roses in front of her urn every two days just to keep the promise they once made to each other to scatter each other's ashes in the sea or in Singapore's newest land that can be planted with flowers together 100 years later and enjoy the beautiful spring blossom. 

When interviewed, I heard him tell stories that touched people's hearts. As an old artist, he interpreted the "love never changes, to show long-term commitment" in his heart, which aroused people's respect. There is rarely pure, heartfelt and eternal love in the secular world. 

Wan Soon Kam, born in Singapore in 1943. In 1949, he returned to Hainan Island, China with his mother for more than ten years, including studying. He then returned to Singapore in 1958. He later studied at Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts. After graduation, he continued his artistic career in commercial art. In the 1970s, he used watercolors, gouache and oil paintings. He frequently showed his outstanding talents in the art world and won the favor of many collectors. In the 1980s, he used a mixture of watercolor and acrylic on watercolor paper or acrylic on canvas. He felt that "what I have pursued in my life is painting, which is the goal of my life and my lifelong work; it is my life."

Wan Soon Kam's outstanding landscape paintings flow with solid, simple, non-extravagant, thick poetic and tranquil artistic conception, which amazes people. His tranquil, profound and beautiful landscapes and rich spiritual language have always been favored and moved by collectors from all walks of life. Almost every joint exhibition and solo exhibition, Wan Soon Kam, the painter, is almost always the best to present his creations. His mastery of colored pens is a return to nature. In the ordinary, he sees the magical; in the plain, he reveals the subtle truth; in the plain, he shows the perfect realm. The inspired brush, or the occasional brush, pursues a rich philosophical artistic conception. It blooms the abundance of his artistic life.

Appreciating his selected masterpieces, the visual mood naturally falls into the poetic cycle in his paintings. Impressive works include the ancient city of Dayan, Lijiang Stockade, terraces, stone houses and ancient roads, withered trees, wildernesses, willows in the distance, red lanterns outside the window blown by a light breeze. They also include brown series or ink green wilderness landscapes, blue series such as "Jinmalun", "Countryside", "Normandy, France", "New Zealand Kikapo" series, "Morning", "Countryside", "Czech Republic". Very beautiful and poetic works. Wan Soon Kam's style is both a highly internal artistic conception and a landscape image series. The long corridors of old traces and old houses, people on the stone slabs, willow catkins swaying in the distance, tall ancient pagodas on the thick peel walls, searching, layer upon layer, infinite space stretching. The tones are natural brown, green, blue and bright white. The brushstrokes are lively, rubbed and stained. This is the painter's dialogue with nature in his heart, allowing the audience to unconsciously fall into the picture.

Wan Soon Kam, the artist, has left his footprints all over the world in the past. Whenever he visits a picturesque location, he would make sketches and record his observations, capturing the beauty from different perspectives. After returning to his studio, he immerses himself in a serene environment to create his artworks. He is an old friend whom I have respected in the art world for many years. During our recent conversation, he mentioned that he no longer receives visitors to focus on his health, except for me, as I have been a sincere and close friend to him and his late wife for many years. I was both honored and deeply touched by this gesture.

For over fifty years, Wan Soon Kam has been a dedicated and relentless artist on his artistic journey. During the interview, we couldn't help but shed tears as we fondly remembered his beloved late wife, Ms Teh Kee Yum, who was also my dear friend for many years. He passionately explained a series of creations he was working on, especially the impressionistic series inspired by their memorable trip to Lijiang in Yunnan. He is a practitioner who earnestly integrates art, love, and life into an idealistic unity. Despite his success, he remains committed to giving back to society. He generously donated hundreds of thousands of dollars from his personal artworks and his late wife's savings to the field of education. Within his pure and simple soul, he harbors a genuine, kind, and beautiful heart that has profound and limitless depth. It radiates brilliance, stretches across vast horizons, and shines with its own luminosity and freedom.