I had a uncommon shock invitation to go to the non-public collections of Thang Dinh earlier than the Mid-America Bonsai Exhibition, held in Chicago, Illinois final weekend.
He received the primary place award within the open division on the 2024 Mid-America Bonsai Exhibition. His medium dimension tree, a powerful Zuisho Japanese five-needle pine, was displayed on two massive tables. After successful the award the society moved his bonsai to an alcove show. This left a big vacant space, so he returned dwelling to convey a group of his high quality high quality suiseki to show. It appeared that almost all of his suiseki had been of Japanese origin, with a particular love for Chrysanthemum stones.
As well as, he had a sizeable assortment of bonsai masterpieces from Japan. They various in dimension, and a number of other had been in coaching with lengthy shoots for future design prospects.
There was additionally a sizeable assortment of high quality high quality bonsai containers for future use. In the US I’ve by no means seen such a big assortment of containers made by Gyozan, thought-about to be the best artist handcrafting bonsai containers in Japan. Many of the different high degree container artists from Tokoname, Japan was properly represented.
There have been many developed and growing American bonsai as properly. He’s refining his bonsai assortment in addition to coaching new specimens.
He additionally had an excellent Japanese black pine bonsai which he displayed within the 2023 8th U.S Nationwide Bonsai Exhibition. He likes to share the fantastic thing about his bonsai in exhibitions. It was clear that he loved his collections, and he had a high quality style for bonsai and suiseki.
