march2001hong

March 2001 - Penjing master Hong Lin

Hong Lin came to Australia several years ago and is now a resident of Melbourne. In his home country of China, Hong Lin spent a lot of time developing his skills in Penjing. Skills that included both the creation of rocks and trees. His work with rocks is wonderful. Hours of patience when cementing pieces together, disguising joins and creating the perfect harmonising partner for his trees. A wonderful evening which went beyond Bonsai and showed us a new world of plantings. Hong was ably assisted by his daughter, Judy who translated for the evening.

Hong explains the joining of the rocks. Sand & Cement and fine pebbles to fill in larger spaces. With the addition of colours and finishing with a fine paintbrush, no joins are visible, even at very close range. This rock used 7 different pieces

Closeup detail of the rock. No joins were visible This rock is made up of several rocks and is hollow in the middle. All the trees are in the base soil and have been encouraged to grow upwards through the crevices.

Closer view of the previous picture. Detail of the Fern growing from the rock.

Another planting where the trees are confined to the rock. Hong makes his own trays. Detail of the previous picture.

Hong created a planting using the Australian hills for inspiration. To get height into the soil, he broke pieces of polystyrene up and put them into the tray.

Just two trees but many rocks to give levels. The addition of an old house with moss all over certainly gave us the feeling of the Aussie bush house.

A miniature planting using rocks that daughter Judy brought back from China. This rock was created some 5 years ago and has a single Lonicera planted in it. Hong has used the rock to imitate a huge trunk, which it does well.

Hong & daughter Judy Ji. Brad thanks Hong for a wonderful demonstration.

Once again we had over 50 members present for the demonstration. A bouganvillea from the display table.

Lovely group of Ficus on a slate slab. How did Barry get all those straight fine trunks? An Oak tree gathered at our last dig. Laurie was, understandably very proud of this tree.

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Hong explains the joining of the rocks. Sand & Cement and fine pebbles to fill in larger spaces. With the addition of colours and finishing with a fine paintbrush, no joins are visible, even at very close range.	This rock used 7 different pieces

Closeup detail of the rock. No joins were visible	This rock is made up of several rocks and is hollow in the middle. All the trees are in the base soil and have been encouraged to grow upwards through the crevices.

Closer view of the previous picture.	Detail of the Fern growing from the rock.

Another planting where the trees are confined to the rock. Hong makes his own trays.	Detail of the previous picture.

Hong created a planting using the Australian hills for inspiration.	To get height into the soil, he broke pieces of polystyrene up and put them into the tray.

Just two trees but many rocks to give levels.	The addition of an old house with moss all over certainly gave us the feeling of the Aussie bush house.

A miniature planting using rocks that daughter Judy brought back from China.	This rock was created some 5 years ago and has a single Lonicera planted in it. Hong has used the rock to imitate a huge trunk, which it does well.

Hong & daughter Judy Ji.	Brad thanks Hong for a wonderful demonstration.

Once again we had over 50 members present for the demonstration.	A bouganvillea from the display table.

Lovely group of Ficus on a slate slab. How did Barry get all those straight fine trunks?	An Oak tree gathered at our last dig. Laurie was, understandably very proud of this tree.