Paintings not for sale. All works by Bernadette are not for sale except for prints or handmade art books handled solely and directly by
Laboratorio Fratelli Manfredi ( Mavida ). Bernadette does not sell her works since her retrospective in Florence in 1993:
" Grandi Quadri. Quadri Invendibili 1983-1993" - Antica Compagnia del Paiolo, Nuovo Stazione Statuto , Firenze.
Any other person who sells you works by Bernadette after that date could be of stolen pieces.
Kindly inform Bernadette via her pec email address: leekamfubernadette@pec.it
New and old. my recent digital publications on Apple Books for free reading
some earlier publications
on Apple books for free reading
author/publisher: Kam Fu Bernadette LEE-PISAPIA
Beyond the 08072023 Mass.
My digital publications on Apple Books for free reading
in Italy, my name is formally written as
LEE Kam Fu Bernadette ( coniugata Pisapia ) from 06092023
I am also known as Kam Fu Bernadette LEE PISAPIA ( for Canada and Hong Kong )
pen names : Bernadette K.Pisapia, Kam Fu Pisapia, Lee-Pisapia Kam Fu Bernadette
student name used in Italy 1983-1984, 1985-1989, 1989-1993
LI ( Last name)
Kam Fu Bernadette ( First name)
all videos Beyond the Masses in Hong Kong were realised for the family of Padre Gianni in Italy , especially Don Italo in Mazzano Romano as well as relatives and friends of Capranica whom I have met through Padre Gianni.
Same videos are available also on my other website under my maiden name:
www.bernadettekamfulee.it
with Padre Gianni in Dec 1983
the videos were realised by Bernadette on 18062023 19062023 , 21062023 , and 28062023 for Padre Gianni's family in Italy: both
in Mazzano Romano and Capranica, thanking
Don Italo and his family for their hospitality
old sketches
1984
the essence of Guilin
, my first trip to China.
first trip to China
I could only remember those sleepless nights, after my first trip to China as a Chinese. Then, all of a sudden, the ghost like sculptural magical mountains were everywhere...
memory of my Guilin mountains
It was cold, that boat ride upon river Li. I was sketching, and sketching... as if there was endless joy and endless hope to sketch all those endless mountains.
Many years passed by, I lost all those sketches. These ones I managed to save. They were done after the trip, in Florence, with love and vivid memories.
dreamy landscape of Guilin
You paint what you dream about, at heart.
You paint what you really love, at heart.
You paint what you think you really are in love with, at heart.
My heart was filled with love, with hope, with joy.
In front of me was the Guilin that I had never thought I could see, close up like that.
I mean, if God were to recreate the Universe, He would certainly start with this kind of landscape: so dreamy, so untangible, so incredibly naive...
I mean, they were pure, so pure that your heart had to relearn how to breathe that pure breath.
first images
the first images of an impression always stay with you, even after years. I have been painting Guilin for so many years after these first images.
But it was that first solitary trip which I recorded my first images of Guilin that stays in my heart.
Treasure it, and you will never lose its richness.
Because it was pure, innocent.
It has been keeping me pure and innocent, for so many years...
Always treasure your first images.
will we dream what we really desire
when you are not able to dream anymore, go back to where you began.
There, you are amazed that you were intact, and there, you find your dream once more.
What is left is essence. The essence of trace.
What is the essence of a trace, of our trace?
Is it not the essence of what we had really dreamed about, when we were alone, when we were fresh, when we were so innocent...
Stay in touch with your beginnings, with every kind of beginning...
There we begin to dream, and you begin to dream
Again...
Paolo the cat
When I went to Guilin, I wanted to visit the child painter Ah Xi. He was described by David Hockney as a gifted child who knew to paint cats as good as those done by Picasso. I must have done this cat after the trip.
I did not manage to meet the child. But his spirit stays in me, stays with my sketch.
colorful thread that weaves Guilin
colorful thread weaves your dreams.
One, two and many weave our dreams.
Give me your thread, I give thee mine,
There, we weave our dreams.
Have a dream, our dreams tonight.
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attending Matteo Ricci musical on 28/04/2024 with a letter from Don Italo, which arrived a day before we went to see the beautiful show.
To my surprise, the calligraphy of Don Italo was so similar to that of Father Johnny . It was like Father Johnny was with us to witness once again the light he left behind through his friends on stage.
note: the above page on Matteo Ricci with video I made in 2019 and the text somehow disappeared from my site www.bernadetteleepisapia.it
It was not my intention.
I had asked for permission from Father Johnny for their publication.
kindly contact me for further clarification.
email:leekamfubernadette@gmail.com
+852 59180987
to view the video,: Our journey ro the Matteo Ricci Musical by Bernadette Kam Fu Lee , you are welcome to go to my YouTube channel
link: https://youtu.be/VRciiNCKLTY?si=IkQ8e6B19eN4_UsF
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