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Frank
Mihalic
Frank is a 2nd generation Bonsai Artist, He is also sculptor, jewelry artist specializing in the Lost Wax carving. He studied the Art of Cameo carving in Torre del Greco Italy
He also has taught workshops at the Polish National bonsai show, South Korea National Bonsai show & the BCI Australia bonsai show. Also many Golden State California Bonsai shows & ABS national bonsai shows.
Frank is a 2nd generation Bonsai Artist, He is also sculptor, jewelry artist specializing in the Lost Wax carving. He studied the Art of Cameo carving in Torre del Greco Italy
He also has taught workshops at the Polish National bonsai show, South Korea National Bonsai show & the BCI Australia bonsai show. Also many Golden State California Bonsai shows & ABS national bonsai shows.
Frank is a 2nd generation Bonsai Artist, He is also sculptor, jewelry artist specializing in the Lost Wax carving. He studied the Art of Cameo carving in Torre del Greco Italy
He also has taught workshops at the Polish National bonsai show, South Korea National Bonsai show & the BCI Australia bonsai show. Also many Golden State California Bonsai shows & ABS national bonsai shows.
In 1979 Frank Mihalic founded “Ichiban Publishing” a publishing company dedicated to bonsai related materials.
1999 & 2001 & 2006, Frank had his tree selected as one of the top one hundred Bonsai trees in the world. by Japan Airlines & the Nippon Bonsai Associations, BCI, WBFF, world wide Bonsai contest, held in Japan.
2000 Japan Airlines & the Nippon Bonsai Association, awarded the top 100 winners a copy of Franks Bonsai Book and CD ROM!
2000 Frank was the first and only foreigner to be awarded a Special Membership in the Cheju Bonsai Growers Association in Cheju Korea !
2001 Frank founded the first Bonsai Magazine on the Internet . www.bonsaionlinemagazine.com
2004 Frank Published the first bonsai book for children “Bonsai For Kids”
2005 He published the first computer CD ROM for Children “Bonsai for Kids”
2005 Frank Translated Bonsai for kids into Spanish “Bonsai Para Los Ninos”
2005 Frank was elected to the Board of Directors of American Bonsai Society (ABS)
2006 Bonsai for kids will be published in Japanese in Japan, and French in Europe.
2006 one of his trees was First runner up in the North American “John Naka Award “ Presented By the American Bonsai Society (ABS)
2006 one of his trees was first runner up in the World, in the Bonsai Clubs International & Centre’ sponsored, world wide contest in Italy.
2010 Bonsai Clubs International (BCI) Board of Directors
2014 Bonsai Clubs International (BCI) Board of Directors
Publications
The art of bonsai “made easy.” Bonsai for kids book, in 10 different languages
Mauro
Stemberger
Mauro Stemberger was born 1978 in Feltre, Italy, and works as an architect and Bonsai artist. At the age of 14 he became fascinated with the art of Bonsai and started his passion with the local Bonsai club Feltre
Mauro Stemberger was born 1978 in Feltre, Italy, and works as an architect and Bonsai artist. At the age of 14 he became fascinated with the art of Bonsai and started his passion with the local Bonsai club Feltre
Mauro Stemberger was born 1978 in Feltre, Italy, and works as an architect and Bonsai artist. At the age of 14 he became fascinated with the art of Bonsai and started his passion with the local Bonsai club Feltre
During the period from 1994-2001 he worked with important European bonsai masters like, Hotsumi Terakawa, Marc Noelander, Horst Crekler, Edoardo Rossi and much more.
In 2002 during a meeting in Arco he has the change to meet Alfiero Suardi and Enrico Savini . Thanks to them he could improve his technique and in the main time studied architecture at IUAV University in Venice.
In 2005 founded the Italian Bonsai Dream workshop place with a group of enthusiast to work and enjoy bonsai art 360°.
Since 2007 he’s written articles for the most important bonsai magazines like Bonsai Focus, UBI bonsai and BCI Bonsai & Stone Appreciation Magazine.
From 2008 he’s recognized BCI bonsai instructor.
From 2008 to 2010 he was President of UBI ( Italian Bonsai association ) and director of UBI bonsai magazine.
In 2011 he founded with a group of students ( Italian Bonsai Dream School ) at Garden Verde – Marostica.
For the last seven years he’s been conducting demonstrations and workshops for bonsai clubs and Associations all over the World!
Visit my website at italianbonsaidream.com or contact me using one of the methods below.
Visit my website at italianbonsaidream.com or contact me using one of the methods below.
Visit my website at italianbonsaidream.com or contact me using one of the methods below.
Mangala
Rao
Mrs.Mangala Rao enthusiastic and much acclaimed bonsai teacher from Pune, Maharashtra has being practicing bonsai art since 1986.her strong ground in Ikebana and her love of gardening inspired and brought her very close to the art of Bonsai.
For more than 25 years she has devoted herself to finding and training fresh talent. Many of her students have become experts in their own right and have even stared classes of their won.
To spread the awareness of Bonsai art, she has conducted her own demonstrations and workshops
Always striving to improve herself she has participated in workshops conducted by renowned national and international bonsai masters such as John Naka (USA) Peter Chan (UK) Budi Sulistyo , Robert Stevens (Indonesia ) Robert Kepensky ( USA) Poncevic Ceballos (Philippines )and many others.
To spread the awareness of Bonsai art, she has conducted her own demonstrations and workshops in various places in India. Her articles on Bonsai art has been published in many newspapers and magazines.
In the year 2000 her solo bonsai exhibition, MYSTIQUE MINIATURE was held at hotel ITC Grand Kaktiya, Hyderabad AP
Mangala has many prestigious awards to her credit.
Photographs of her Bonsai creations have won recognition at the WORLD BONSAI CONTEST, JAPAN. Photographs of her bonsai have been also awarded five times (2005-2013) by South Asia Bonsai contest conducted by Indian Bonsai Masters Jyoti and Nikunj Parekh. Her bonsai has been listed among 120 world’s best trees in BCI 2015 photo Album and been selected by DK publication, London for the book ‘Bonsai’ written By Peter Warren.
She was associated with Bonsai society, Hyderabad for 25 years and served as a president. With association with her club she has created well appreciated BONSAI WONDER, a bonsai garden in the premises of NTR gardens Hyderabad.
Having relocated recently, Mangala now lives In Pune and continues to focus on imparting the art in Maharashtra. She is keeping on efforts to spread the art by conducting Demonstrations Exhibitions workshops and study classes.
She published a book on Bonsai in 2008 to bring this exceptional art within the reach of the novice in India. The book was very well appreciated by the Bonsai lovers in India and media .
Nacho Marin
Nacho Marin
Having completed studies in Civil Work Design, and raided widely in the world of visual arts through painting, sculpture and photography, Nacho Marin decides to transit through the millennial art of bonsai due to the intense magnetism that attracts him to it. To be able to intervene these trees and recreate with them images of nature in an artistic way, became an absolute life passion for this recognized artist: Nacho Marin.
For him, Bonsai is a virtual space where nature allows us to play at creating it.
• Professional Master photographer.
• Plastic artist.
• His beginnings as a bonsaist were empirical until 2002 when he joined the Venezuelan Bonsai Society; here, he exchanges his knowledge with other bonsaists and deepen his own. Teacher: Yolanda Gordon.
• He took the basic, intermediate and advanced courses in the Bonsai Conservationist Society in Valencia, Venezuela, 2005. Teacher: Milagros Rauber and Luisa de Alfaro.
• He took the basic, intermediate and advanced courses for trainers in the Bonsai Conservationist Society in Valencia, Venezuela, 2006. Teacher: Milagros Rauber and Luisa de Alfaro.
• He attended the intensive school at the Futago Bonsai School in San Juan de Puerto Rico, PR, USA, 2008. Teacher: Pedro Morales.
• He attended the European Bonsai School in San Juan de Puerto Rico, PR, USA, 2009 to 2012. Teacher: Salvatore Liporace.
Countries where there is my school:
Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Brazil, Mexico.
Angel R.
Uyehara
Date of birth: March 24, 1967 · Studied at Notre Dame of Greater Manila (Elementary and High school) · Graduated in University of Santo Tomas, Manila (Bachelor of Science in Commerce, Major in management) 1988 · Married | spouse: Mary Ann Uyehara| 4 children · Self-Employed · Two terms of Board of Director of PBSI (2008-2012)
1998 | Started learning bonsai at the age of 31.
2002 | Started learning bonsai seriously, under the mentorship of Mr. Jun Obrero (Philippines)
2004 | Joined the Philippine Bonsai Society Inc. as an ordinary member.
2005 | My first show in second PBSI National Bonsai Open Exhibition and Competition
2006 | Official delegate in Hwa Fong, Taiwan.
Member as a working Committee in various PBSI National and International shows.