Something new under the sun! Sumi artist Sonia Stella's  caption reads... "Bonsai by Sandro Segneri and modern ink by me"

I’m always a little stoked when we discover a new bonsai artist (quoted from our July 14th post).  Now we can double down on that with today’s discovery of Sonia Stella’s Bonsai Art & Ink Painting – Sakura Studio. Or maybe triple down, with the added excitement of discovering a perfect intersection of two arts performed at such a high level.

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Exquisite, elegant, beautiful

More evidence

A piece of an Ume (Japanese flowering apricot). From Sonia's photo album titled Inspiration Bonsai. Stella's eye for bonsai is impressive. Just as you might expect

I cropped the lead photo in hopes of a better look at Sandro Segneri's magnificent root-on-rock bonsai. If I have a complaint about Sonia Stella's Bonsai Art & Ink Painting - Sakura Studio, it's that this is the only bonsai I could find among a whole series of shots, that is attributed to the artist.

Sonia with an impressive, to say the least, Japanese white pine