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BERNADETTE , known as

Bernadette Kam Fu LEE

as well as Kam Fu Bernadette LEE-PISAPIA , A FINE ARTIST and a Self-published author

Art , not for sale except for prints and artist books solely handled by Laboratorio Fratelli Manfredi.( previously known as Mavida)

Bernadette does not sell her pieces since her retrospective in Florence ( 1983-1993, Grande Quadri. Quadri Invendibili)

whoever sells you works by Bernadette after that date could be of stolen pieces.

Kindly inform Bernadette via email: leekamfubernadette@pec.it

Bernadette’s diary-

on Apple Books

for free reading

under author:

Last name: LEE-PISAPIA

first name: Kam Fu Bernadette

LEE-PISAPIA Kam Fu Bernadette or LEE Kam Fu Bernadette

( order of name used in Hong Kong and Italy

alias

Kam Fu Bernadette LEE-PISAPIA ( alias Kam Fu Bernadette LEE PISAPIA)

(order of name used in Britain, Canada )

alias

Bernadette Kam Fu LEE ( maiden name)(artist name)

LEE-PISAPIA, Kam Fu Bernadette

(order and form ( with a comma in between ) generally used in Hong Kong to distinguish

last name from first name)

Kam Fu Bernadette LEE-PISAPIA

(order generally used in Britain and Canada )

penname: Bernadette K. Pisapia, Kam Fu Pisapia, Lee-Pisapia Kam Fu Bernadette

Bernadette is the writer as well as the publisher

the name chosen for the publisher ( not a registered company ) has two

formats:

LEE-PISAPIA, Kam Fu Bernadette ( Hong Kong format), or LEE-PISAPIA Kam Fu Bernadette ( Italian format) . Therefore, the comma in between does not mean two distinct individuals as it is used to distinguish the last name and the first name in the Hong Kong format. For the other format, capital letter has been used to indicate the LAST NAME from the first name.

( from 06/09/2023, the Italain format is officially transformed to LEE Kam Fu Bernadette coniugata PISAPIA . However, the fully extended writing of my hyphenated Last Name is still maintained as my Canadian and Hong Kong identity : Kam Fu Bernadette LEE-PISAPIA)

NOTE:

email : ahfu@bernadetteleepisapia.it has previously been compromised and therefore please use the email:

kamfubernadette@icloud.com or leekamfubernadette@gmail.com to contact me.

Thank you.

Bernadette

05/05/2023

Hong Kong

student name used in Italy:

LI (last name)

Kam Fu Bernadette ( first name)

photos 40 years later:

with Padre Gianni in Dec 1983, Hong Kong

with Don Italo. Mazzano Romano, Oct 2023

videos Per Padre Gianni can be viewed on my other website:www.bernadetteleepisapia.it especially realised by Bernadette for the family of Padre Gianni in Mazzano Romano and Capranica, Italy, thanking them for their hospitality

Shadows

David Hockney once noticed that Chinese paintings do not have shadows.

It was an interesting observation.

So I began a series of works during my stay in Hong Kong :

to paint everyday life with the idea of shadows in mind

flowers we buy, fruits we eat

all on different kinds of traditional rice paper

mostly types I never got a chance to purchase when I was in Italy

the first series were done in watercolour and pigments bought in Florence with Florentine binder

when my binder for making gouache finished, I began binding them in oils

my everyday life is lived with limitations and unlimited joy of experimentation: when I finished one kind of binder, another kind became a new way of seeing

the Still lifes look banale as they resemble of studies I did when I first learned how to paint. But in the banalness, I was reminded of the very joy of painting, firstly discovered-the initial sparks of inspiration, though now coupled with some sophistication with a slight touch of melancholy, perhaps.

the meaning of being young in the way of seeing perhaps is another kind of shadows: something that follows you deep down and something that gives you the kind of hope you need in order to move forward.

diary of Bernadette

8th July 2019

故事

𦍑花的故事

含羞

盛放

髮剪

如電影storyboard般, 依次序一同顯現在中國紙上

香氣走後

影留

黃皮

紅梅