Chelenge Van Rampelberg

Chelenge Van Rampelberg (born 1961) is a Kenyan sculptor who works with wood. She has been called Kenya's first female sculptor.

Quotes

• We went by boat and spent hours there.
• It was like going back to the middle ages, a time of self-sufficiency.
  • http://www.lamupaintersfestival.org/artist-in-residence/rampelberg/chelenge-van-rampelberg.php (The lamu painters Festival)
  • 'I am not really a good housewife. Even as a child, we had to help at home but i always chose the things that men do."
  • "In the part of the world where i come from, women belong to the kitchen and i fought that from when i was very little."
  • "I am not a madam. I can never be a madam. I hate being a madam. Normally i am very dirty and i love nature. i love the things i do with my hands."
  • "When people are creative, they will live in harmony because their mind is taken by something that is beyond. It brings a lot of joy, it calms the soul."
  • "When people are creative, they don't have the space to get hungry. They don't even have the feeling to get hungry for food because the food is what they are creating."

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• • “I go deep inside the forests and that’s where I find the gorillas, elephants and birds that I etch onto wooden plates when I’m awake.”
  • “It was actually out of loneliness that I first began to paint.”

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