Presented by BCI President Tom Elias, USA and BCI Director Budi Sulistyo, Indonesia
Recipient of the BCI Excellence Award:
Wacang is the local name of “Sancang” or Premna mycrophylla grafted to “Wahong” or Premna salicifolia. The size of this bonsai is around 82 cm, the owner is Inneke from Ponorogo, East Java. It was featured on the cover of BSAM Q1 2015. Photo by Tom Elias, USA
Presented by BCI Director IS Ng, Malaysia
Recipient of the BCI Excellence Award:
Mr. Low Ah Seng for his Wrightia religiosa.
Presented by BCI President Tom Elias, USA
Recipients of the BCI Excellence Award:
Tony Bebb, for his Ficus oblique, Multi-Trunk Style
Carole Waller for her Pinus canariensis.
Steve Cullum for his Lillypilly, Syzygium smithii.
Brenda Parker, for her viewing stone appropriately named Lost Forest. It recalled the recent discovery of a large grove of a new species of trees, the Wollemi pine, discovered in a hidden canyon in 1996.
Trevor Simmons for his large arch-shaped Laibin stone of a standard high enough to receive one of the three BCI Excellence Awards presented to the stones in this display.
John Cowgill for his stone that resembles a coastal bluff.
Presented by BCI President Tom Elias, USA and BCI Director Budi Sulistyo, Indonesia
Recipient of the BCI Excellence Award:
Alfredo Manarang, for his Pemphis acidula, Best Bantigue Category, Gold Winner
Roberto “Bobby” Gopiao for his Barbados cherry, Malpighia glabra.
Alfonso Apostol, for his viewing stone Mother & Child, also awarded Best Suiseki in Show.
Tony Gedang, for his viewing stone The Falcon.
Presented by BCI Director Massimo Bandera, Italy
Recipient of the BCI Excellence Award:
Francesco Damini for his Cryptomeria sp., Japanese Cedar
"At the recent Arcobonsai exhibition, a Japanese Cedar that I saw for the first time had an incredible impact on me, so small and yet so much a tree, so suggestive.
When you experience particular emotions from a bonsai, whether the tree is strong and formal, elegant and refined, or informal, you can try to analyze the aesthetic values and delve into the emotional experiences that a bonsai masterpiece can provide.
What comes to mind with this tree is what the Japanese literati describe as a “suggestion of feelings,” a world of innuendo, relationships and evocations, where “less is more,” where a suggestion is enough to spark the emotional imagination of the viewer. This suggestive power is a poetic ideal that evokes by implication.
Francesco Damini’s Japanese Cedar has an amazing force, yet the absence of its large size is obvious; it is very small! A small tree that suggests a cedar of great size. This is the tree I selected for the BCI Excellence Award ." — Massimo Bandera
Presented by BCI Director Massimo Bandera, Italy
Recipients of the BCI Excellence Award:
Enzo Ferrari for his Pinus mugo.
Umberto Zinini for his landscape viewing stone.
Presented by BCI Directors Chiara Padrini, Italy and Kathy Coffman, USA
Recipient of the BCI Excellence Award:
Mel Goldstein for his beautiful “Chinzan” Azalea Mel Goldstein for his impressive Ying stone, 14 x 8 x 6.5 inches. Although from China, it embodies the aesthetics of Korean stones. For Koreans the hollow spaces in
the stones are very significant and are greatly prized. They indicate a path, overcoming the difficulties in life, the future and the unknown.
Presented by BCI Director BCI Director Joan Greenway, Canada
Recipient of the BCI Excellence Award:
Gay Liddell, an award winning potter, a 15-year member, past president, and secretary of the Matsuyama Bonsai Society was given the BCI Excellence Award for her many contributions to the Matsuyama Bonsai Society.
Presented by BCI Director Kath Hughes, UK
Recipient of the BCI Excellence Award:
Mo Fagan for his Chamaecyparis nana gracilis. Left to right: Kath Hughes, Mo Fagan and Malcolm Hughes.