you call us hobbiests !!!! Strange, I thought what you do in bonsai is a hobby. I doubt that many of you have been trained as experts in the field of bonsai.
But yet, because we don't mass produce what you assume we should be making , we are only doing a hobby. Sheeeesh, you have no idea what we have to learn to become potters.
The costs we have , kilns, clay,tools, mold making, and the knowledge along with our artistic ability.We are not beginners we have studied to do what we do.
Unlike the Japanese , we are not paid by our government to keep the art alive.
Some of you seem to think that we don't use the right clays, well, we don't have acres of rice fields that have created high levels of iron into the clay giving it that rich red clay.
Oh, by the way a lot of clay in Tokoname and the rest of Japan is imported from other areas .
Some of the old great masters only used imported clay from China.
It doesn't take 5 minutes to make a bonsai pot. All of my pots are hand painted . To get the effects I want I need to repaint the same areas 3 or even up to 6 times, some I have done are 9 layers of glaze.
I have been doing bonsai for more than 20 years. As well as doing potter for much much longer.
I get people sending me pictures of trees asking me to make a pot to suit it . perhaps I should be as rude as some on here and tell them " your tree is more worthy of a $10 pot from bunnings.
Show me your qualifications that say you are right and you know everything..............
Okay I think I have said my piece . Lets just get on with enjoying our bonsai and "PLAY NICE CHILDREN"
' bonsai pots by joann'
The 1st and 3rd picture are my favourites. Lovely.
