Happy holidays!

NTC juniper

Yesterday I took the time to take care of my juniper which I styled at Vienna for the EBA New talent contest in 2008. The juniper was in these few years a bit neglected and was in need of a second styling. The material itself doesn't promise much, so I decided to meke something special out of it and give it some interest.
The new shape of the crown isn't much different from the original one, but the whole design is quite different. If nothing else this tree has some emotional and memmorial value for me.

In Vienna before the styling.

The finished work for the NTC.

The juniper a few days before the second styling.

The finished product.

Shohin yew

Today was time for some late-autumn work. My shohin yew was in need of some rewiring and styling. The first photo shows the yew as I got it in 2009.


A photo taken this summer.


After styling and before shortening the jin at the top.


The final product.

Japanese day

Today Jože (Joseph), a good buddy of mine gave me an interesting invite. He decided to participate on a contest and so he created something out of sushi. I brought along some bonsai and together we created an interesting composition of Japanese culture.
Thanks again for the feast!

Korean hornbeam

After more then two weeks of fog we finally had a sunny day yesterday. So I used the oppurtunity to make a few good photos of my hornbeam.

Today was foggy again...

New yamadori for

I just updated my Trees for  page. You are most welcome to take a look. For more info please contact me on nikart.rozman@gmail.com

Burrs - sightseeing

On Monday we were trevelling the UK a little. First stop was to David Barlow's garden. I think a lot of you know the tree on the photos below. It wan a prize at the last Ginkgo awards.



Next, Tony took us to a wanderfull place where he takes only special people he says.








And a look at a very old oak avanue.

Burrs - collecting

On Friday, the minute I flew in, we took off to find some yamadori. We found some nice hawthorns.

Burrs - the trees I've worked on

I hope you didn't think I was just hanging around doing nothing those two days. On Saturday Tony brought be a pine of his. The tree became quite international. It was dug up in Czech by Pavel who gave it to Mirek who gave it to Tony. And then Toni gave it to me to work on. Anyhow... The pine turned out to be a challange. It had a bad base/nebari, inverse tapper and the best part of the trunk was dead already.
After a few moments of thinking what to do I decided to make a quick sketch of the future design and begun to work.







This is the finished tree. Not much far of the original design, huh?


The second day I worked on a yew, which I brought home in the end in my suitcase.

Burrs - workshop

The workshop was held on Saturday and Sunday in a comunity center of some sorts. Four artists were invited to give the participants help and guidence: Carlos van der Vaart, Will Baddley, Pavel Slovak and Terry Foster. There were a LOT of trees to work on and each and every one of them made a step foreward.