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Mastered without a guru

I started in 1976 as a studio potter producing functional and decorative pieces from stoneware and porcelain clays. My switch to bonsai pots came…

7 October 2025
Pots

Clay and Ink

Samuele Quarena (SQ) and his father, Giovan Battista Quarena (GBQ), make bonsai pots together. Giovan Battista
collects clay in the mountains, filters it and makes it ready for processing. Together, they study the…

9 July 2025
Pots

One thing led to another

Jakub Malcharek likes to work on both bonsai and ceramic pottery. They seem to complement one another. One can't exist without the other and, thanks to his experience with bonsai, ...

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28 May 2025
Pots

The Stone monkey

One of the greatest bonsai ceramists has left us…

12 February 2025
Pots

Pots from paradise

Inspired by the mighty rocky  landscapes in Bohemia, Jirí  Konopác decided that making  bonsai pots was the best 
choice for life…

5 February 2025
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Thor Holvila – a portrait

The swedish bonsai potter Thor Holvila is portraited by Jesus Contreras who visited Thor at his workshop and home during a week in the summer of 2023…

1 January 2025
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Zen pots

Antonio Ziccarelli’s raw vision of pottery

24 October 2024
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Masterly small

From tiny, delicately-painted pots to nanban style, these are early Tsukinowa Yuusen masterpieces

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6 September 2024
Pots

Rocklike

Luboš Škoda from the Czech Republic finds inspiration for his Bonsai Pots in rocks, bark or anything with a rough texture...

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14 February 2024
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Colourful black & white

Modern ceramic artists Susumu Fujii creates bonsai pots which
only ‘color is black or white…

22 November 2023
Pots

An emotional experience

I began with bonsai about 15 years ago, but soon the commercial, industrially manufactured pots no longer related to my ideas.

9 November 2023
Pots

Fire in the cave

A visit to the Ooshio Shoujin Kiln, Nara, Japan.

15 September 2023

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