Flemish text:
-What to chose: not to be seen because you don’t have a name, or because you do have a name?
(Myriam vandenberghe)
The magic world of Myriam Vandenberghe
The American-Brazilian artist van Chapman is deeply moved by the combination of intimacy and majesty shown by trees. The avenues and woods with which Sint-Martens-Latem is endowed call her irresistibly to make an artistic exploration of the wondrous variety of nature. This yields splendid views and colourful observations of bark and trunks. With their constantly varying shades of light and shadow, trees provide a dome of peace and restfulness and draw us into the mystery of life. Van Chapman’s work reflects her love and respect for the nature that feeds us and revitalises us with inner strength. In this respect she shares exactly the same sensitivity as her kindred artistic spirit Myriam Vandenberghe.
As the child of the Brazilian artist Isolda Hermes da Fonseca (1924-2004) and the American artist Grover Chapman (1924-2000), van Chapman’s (1948) artistic gifts and passion were inborn.
Having roamed Europe and lived for a long time in both Norway and the Netherlands, she set up Nature Studio in Ghent together with Myriam Vandenberghe, a project which promoted a precious and loving interest in nature by means of art, photography and philosophy.
Geraldine F. Chapman (van Chapman is her pseudonym) has previously published the book Love and Death, or the seed of the lotus-flower. Drawings and writings and has completed the manuscript of a new book entitled Light over water, a marvellous combination of nature photos and philosophical reflections.
Flemish text:
Inleiding door: Albert-Fernand Haelemeersch, kunstrecensent en auteur van
‘Verknocht aan het land in de Leiebocht’ en ‘Latemse Kunstenaars, de Vijfde Generatie’
uit
Sint-Martens-Latem
nieuwsblad.be/Sint-Martens-Latem
De Amerikaans-Braziliaanse kunstenares van Chapman is gegrepen door het samenspel van intimiteit en majesteit van bomen. De dreven en bossen waarmee Sint-Martens-Latem is begiftigd nodigen haar onweerstaanbaar uit toteen artistieke exploratie van die wondere diversiteit van de natuur.
Het levert prachtige zichten op en kleurrijke observaties van schors en stronken. Met hun steeds wisselende schakeringen van licht en schaduw zorgen bomen voor een koepel van rust en vrede en nemen ze ons op in het mysterie van het leven. Het werk van van Chapman straalt liefde en respect uit voor de natuur die ons voedt en oplaadt met innerlijke kracht. Ze sluit hiermee helemaal aan bij de sensibiliteit van haarartistieke geestesgenoot Myriam Vandenberghe.
Isolda Hermes da Fonseca
(Rio de Janeiro 1924 – 2004)
‘In search of beauty’
“The face is the great landscape", Isolda used to say.
A Portrait - Philosophic
Community Project
by van Chapman
In the cafés in Gent , Belgium
Naturestudio
was created to promote spiritual self awareness,
inner truth and the contemplation of the beauty of Nature
through Art and Philosophy.
The nature painters van Chapman and Myriam Vandenberghe,
are looking for inspiration, for accommodation and
a place for exhibition in the areas of nature reserves.
You can mail to us: contact
in 2007
TREES OF LATEM
by van Chapman
www.naturestudio .net
From: van Chapman
www.Naturestudio.net
(subject of a message sent to President Obama)
"Here is a proof of the contradictions in name of God in the so called holy books."
Did Jesus tell his followers to convert by the sword, or did he say,
"Those who use the sword will be killed by the sword"?
If Jesus impeded Peter to use the sword,
(Matthew 26:52) New American Standard Bible (©1995)
Jesus said to him, "Put your sword back into its place; for all those who take up the sword shall perish by the sword.",
he could not have said this;(Luke 19:27)
'But those mine enemies, which would not that I should reign over them,
bring hither, and slay them before me.'
The first is the attitude of Gandhi;
the second of the bloody Crusaders
or Jihadists.
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According to the view of this author of Naturestudio,
(van Chapman),*
Hate is the false prophet, and love, the true master.
Wisdom is not to kill=destroy the evil man but the evil in man.
The greatest enemy of man is his own proud arrogance
or pride and love of power,
and it is not through military victory over others
but through self awareness
that victory over ourselves is won.
The madness of the religious wars are caused by such sayings in the Bible as in the Koran.
How could Luke have got it so wrong?
...
van Chapman
**PROJECT Philosophic Community
http://www.naturestudio.net/
philosophic_community_project.html