Just a quick thank you to the Munster Bonsai Club guys for a great weekend, it was special 🙂
Especial thanks to Mark and Valerie for putting us up for the weekend and to Piotr for organising everything. I’ll post more when I get a chance but for now you can just look at our ugly mugs.
Club night tonight and then off to County Cork with Phil to run a workshop weekend with the Munster Club guys. Craic to be had 🙂
Playing catch up with photos. I took these a few weeks back at the Leinster Bonsai Club meeting. Fell in love with this little Horse Chestnut!
Little Ash
Think I scared Ovi in this one lol
Phil and Owen 5 minutes into their staring contest!
A relaxed and enjoyable atmosphere, keep it up guys.
Pack yer bag yer leaving! 🙂
If only I had more Thyme 🙂
I’m heading to Leinster Bonsai Clubs meeting tonight in Balbriggan with Phil for some craic and wee trees.
Done this for the club to give a flavour of what we get up to at one of these things.
Well that’s the club’s Bonsai School over until after the Summer. I had a great weekend in the sun with a bunch of bonsai folk who also seem to have had a good time. Here’s a few snaps from the weekend.
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Saturday saw us driving to Mark’s home where he kindly agreed to host the workshop. His large tunnel was cleared out to give us room to make a mess. Each of the people taking part picked a tree to discuss … Continue reading
Ok, so it’s Munster not Monster, but these things start small and build. This group are keen to learn and we spent a very wet and windy Friday night in Blackrock Hurling Club waiting for the roof to blow off!! We also covered potting medium and what we are looking for in a mix, carving bonsai, tree critique all at the same time as a Juniper was being styled.
Today sees Phil and I head back to Cork for a workshop weekend with the Munster Bonsai Club. Looking forward to seeing the chaps again.
We are even stopping off on the way down to see Owen who’s starting up the Leinster Bonsai Club.
I was lucky enough to be staying at Willowbog over the weekend, so while others were back and forward from hotels etc I had the pleasure of spending time with the Jean and Peter Snart, Peter Warren, and John Armitage, all of whom I had met before. The new addition this time was Valentin Brose, the German Bonsai Artist, and former student of Kunio Kobayashi.
I was about to compare Peter Warren and Valentin, but that wouldn’t be fair on Valentin 🙂 We all know that Mr Warren is a one off! What I will say is that Shunka-en must instill a humbleness in it’s students, a great quality for a bonsai artist. His down to earth, one of the guys approach to the weekend was well received by everyone I spoke too. He is a talented artist and despite there being about 20 different regional accents at the exhibition, he coped very well. He still didn’t understand Phil though 😛
He demonstrated both days and led a display critique on the Saturday afternoon. We will not mention his ‘master plan’ for shohin domination of Europe that was hatched after a few beers on Saturday night 😀
Here are a few photo of his weekend. Valentin, it was a pleasure to meet you.
And just for you Valentin, this was what we discussed over breakfast on Sunday morning 🙂
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