二○一五年早些时候,我造访了严善罅自一九九三年便供职的深圳画院的工作室。~①我们就版画展开了广泛的讨论,而且我还能亲见他制作出几幅作品,真是难得的机会。严善罅是一位受人尊敬的画家和学者,他曾撰文广泛论述过传统和当代中国艺术的许多方面;但他近几年全心投入的却是版画。事实上,他认为只有在版画中他才能达到其早期作品里曾有的某种 Earlier in 2015, I visited the studio of Yan Shan-yi, who worked in Shenzhen Art Academy since 1993. We have had extensive discussions on printmaking and it is a real chance that I can personally see him create a few works. Yan Shan-hui, a respected artist and scholar, has written extensively on many aspects of traditional and contemporary Chinese art; but in recent years he has devoted himself to printmaking. In fact, he thinks he can only achieve one of his earlier works in printmaking