Bonsai - Living Art: 2014

Monday, June 16, 2014

VI. International bonsai exhibition demo Sandor Papp

Sandor Papp was the third demonstrator on the VI. International exhibition in Ljubljana. He worked on two nice Pinus Sylvestris Yamadori from France and I think when you take a look at the photos and his end result there is no need to say much more. Great work from Sandor and his assistant Blaž Jemec.

I personally like his clear style of Japanese design with lots of feeling for detail very much.

Friday, June 13, 2014

VI. International bonsai exhibition demo Andrea Melloni

Andrea Melloni made three great demonstrations at the VI. International bonsai exhibition in Ljubljana. Next to the excellent work, Andrea was answering a lot of question to the public and showed his great knowledge about the art of bonsai.

In the first demo Andrea and his assistant Tomaž Hafner styled a Pinus sylvestris.

First tree before the demo

Andrea Melloni

Tomaž Hafner and Andrea Melloni

First tree after the demo

On the second day Andrea styled one more very interesting Pine. Unfortunately I don't have the photo of the end result of his second demonstration but I hope I will get a photo and publish it later.

Andrea Melloni with his second demo tree

Andrea Melloni

The last demonstration was done together with Vid Novak and one more time an interesting tree with good future was created.

Andrea Melloni with the third tree before the demo

Andrea Melloni and Vid Novak

Pinus sylvestris after the demo

Thursday, June 5, 2014

VI. International bonsai exhibition demo Nik Rozman

Next to the exhibition (for photos from the exhibition click here) there ware of course demonstrations where three demonstrators from Germany (Andrea Melloni), Hungary Sandro Papp) and Slovenia (Nik Rozman) shared the knowledge and styled they trees in front of the public.

Nik Rozman and his assistant Jože Gros styled an old Taxus baccata which is an urban yamadori and was collected six years ago.

Taxus baccata before the demo

Nik Rozman

Nik Rozman and Jože Gros

Nik Rozman

Taxus baccata after the demo

Before and after

Tuesday, June 3, 2014

Photos from the VI. International bonsai exhibition in Ljubljana

Members of the Slovenian bonsai club organized the VI. International bonsai exhibition which took place in Hotel Mons in Ljubljana. There ware more than 60 trees from Italy, Austria, Hungary and Slovenia in the show. In my opinion the level of the exhibition was on a very good level.

Japanese garden by Valter Škrabar

There ware live demonstration each day from three artist Nik Rozman (Slovenia), Andrea Melloni (Germany) and Sandor Papp (Hungary). I will publish separate posts from this demonstrations in the next couple of days. Tomaž Kovšca also made a guided tour for the visitors each day.