Mid America Bonsai Alliance 2006 Symposium
Louis Vallejo Demonstration with a
collected Winged Elm (Ulmus alata)
Louis Vallejo of Spain is widely recognized as one of the top bonsai artists in Europe. He was the winner of the first Gingko Award and has since been one of the top exhibitors in that exhibit. He was the curator of the bonsai collection of the President of Spain, which was recently donated to the Spanish Botanical Gardens. He has been the featured artist at bonsai conventions on the East Coast of the US and in Central America. This will be his first appearance in the Midwest. The demostration will feature winged elms that were collected in Oklahoma.
According to Vallejo bonsái is "modified Nature" and, like in any other aspect of the Nature, time plays a decisive role in the life of all tree.
Images By Paul Stokes, USA
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Collected Winged Elm (Ulmus alata) before the demonstration.
Another view
Louis Vallejo
Louis Vallejo
Louis Vallejo inspecting the stock
Louis Vallejo inspecting the stock
Louis Vallejo removing un-needed branches
This is the back of the tree
Louis reducing the crown
Still some branches are too long for the size of the tree.
After some wire has been applied
Some more wire
Every branch must be just so
Louis explaining that the future owner of this tree will have to create the majority of the tree. He says this is just a skeleton.
Collected Winged Elm (Ulmus alata) after the demonstration
The lucky raffle winner with Louis Vallejo and the tree