Bonsai Blog of John Pitt

Spent the day Sunday with bonsai friends, a great time to fine wire , wiring is fun when you have good friends to chat to, this itoigawa is coming along nicely.

The sun was shining today and these looked lovely.

This is an image I’ve wanted to create for many years, just waiting for the right tree I guess, and my friend Peter Warren had this beautiful , elegant, maple for sale. It was perfect for the image I had in mind, although maybe not so old, yet, it has a wonderful nebari, very elegant trunkline, needs more work on the branching and ramification, and the trunk texture needs ageing, it just needs time, and care, to mature.

I first saw this image in John Naka’s book several years ago, I love solitary trees in nature and this is my attempt to recreate the feeling of space.

spent some time pruning and refining this one today, the lower branches were very weak when I got this tree, but a few years of giving them more light(by tilting the tree) and foliar feeding specific branches seems to be working, they are slowly getting stronger, I’m pleased with progress so far.

Althugh I’ve not posted for a while, sorry about that, been very busy with orders, shows and of course a busy time with trees.

I just took these out of the kiln, all shohin size, for a USA customer, some of these glazes have some new additives in the formula, difficult to tell from pictures, but I’m very pleased with the matt, mottled and aged look and feel to these, I was inspired by the antique pots I saw in Japan and am determined to try and create a finish to my pots that will look and feel older than it actually is, the same as we try to create with our bonsai.

I had a fantastic weekend at this event,

I exhibited this Larch in an unusual setting, part of the innovations display.

more pictures here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIwFqoLpR0c

with kind permission of Tony, who shot this video.

experimenting with oxides in different ways,

I was very inspired by the pots I saw in Japan