{"id":3234,"date":"2022-09-21T08:41:16","date_gmt":"2022-09-21T08:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bonsai4me.com\/?p=3234"},"modified":"2022-09-21T08:41:16","modified_gmt":"2022-09-21T08:41:16","slug":"visit-to-tomas-gramming-bonsai-and-ceramics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bonsai4me.com\/visit-to-tomas-gramming-bonsai-and-ceramics\/","title":{"rendered":"Visit to Tomas Gramming Bonsai and Ceramics"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"3234\" class=\"elementor elementor-3234\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-9f73d85 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"9f73d85\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-0cbb582\" data-id=\"0cbb582\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ba45995 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"ba45995\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.21.0 - 30-04-2024 *\/\n.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-stacked .elementor-drop-cap{background-color:#69727d;color:#fff}.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-framed .elementor-drop-cap{color:#69727d;border:3px solid;background-color:transparent}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap{margin-top:8px}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap-letter{width:1em;height:1em}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap{float:left;text-align:center;line-height:1;font-size:50px}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap-letter{display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t<p style=\"font-family: 'myriad pro'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;\" align=\"left\">During May 2019, a small group of us had the great pleasure of visiting the home of bonsai potter Tomas Gramming in Gothenburg, Sweden. Tomas has become well-known for his incredibly detailed clay-work when making bonsai pots, and he also has a very good eye for bonsai.<\/p><p style=\"font-family: 'myriad pro'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;\" align=\"left\">More of Tomas&#8217; work can be see\u00a0<a style=\"font-style: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'myriad pro', 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, sans-serif;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/tomas_gramming\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>\u00a0on Instagram<\/p><p style=\"font-family: 'myriad pro'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;\" align=\"center\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bonsai4me.com\/Images\/AT%20Visit%20to%20Tomas%20Gramming%20bonsai%20pots\/tomas%20gramming%20bonsai%20pot%20(1).jpg\" alt=\"spruce yamadori bonsai\" width=\"667\" height=\"559\" \/><\/p><p style=\"font-family: 'myriad pro'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;\" align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bonsai4me.com\/Images\/AT%20Visit%20to%20Tomas%20Gramming%20bonsai%20pots\/tomas%20gramming%20bonsai%20pot%20(2).jpg\" alt=\"spruce yamadori bonsai\" width=\"667\" height=\"500\" \/><\/p><p style=\"font-family: 'myriad pro'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;\" align=\"center\">One of the first trees that grabbed my attention as we walked into the garden of Tomas was this, as yet unstyled, Norway Spruce yamadori, Picea abies.<\/p><p style=\"font-family: 'myriad pro'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;\" align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bonsai4me.com\/Images\/AT%20Visit%20to%20Tomas%20Gramming%20bonsai%20pots\/tomas%20gramming%20bonsai%20pot%20(3).jpg\" alt=\"Oak bonsai\" width=\"586\" height=\"700\" \/><\/p><p style=\"font-family: 'myriad pro'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;\" align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bonsai4me.com\/Images\/AT%20Visit%20to%20Tomas%20Gramming%20bonsai%20pots\/tomas%20gramming%20bonsai%20pot%20(4).jpg\" alt=\"Oak bonsai\" width=\"525\" height=\"700\" \/><\/p><p style=\"font-family: 'myriad pro'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;\" align=\"center\">Quercus robur\/English Oak bonsai.<\/p><p style=\"font-family: 'myriad pro'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;\" align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bonsai4me.com\/Images\/AT%20Visit%20to%20Tomas%20Gramming%20bonsai%20pots\/tomas%20gramming%20bonsai%20pot%20(5).jpg\" alt=\"hornbeam raft bonsai\" width=\"700\" height=\"525\" \/><\/p><p style=\"font-family: 'myriad pro'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;\" align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bonsai4me.com\/Images\/AT%20Visit%20to%20Tomas%20Gramming%20bonsai%20pots\/tomas%20gramming%20bonsai%20pot%20(6).jpg\" alt=\"hornbeam raft bonsai\" width=\"700\" height=\"525\" \/><\/p><p style=\"font-family: 'myriad pro'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;\" align=\"center\">Carpinus\/Hornbeam raft bonsai, currently in a wooden training box.<\/p><p style=\"font-family: 'myriad pro'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;\" align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bonsai4me.com\/Images\/AT%20Visit%20to%20Tomas%20Gramming%20bonsai%20pots\/tomas%20gramming%20bonsai%20pot%20(7).jpg\" alt=\"potentilla raft bonsai\" width=\"700\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p><p style=\"font-family: 'myriad pro'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;\" align=\"center\">Tomas showing Samuel Brierley his Potentilla raft bonsai<\/p><p style=\"font-family: 'myriad pro'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;\" align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bonsai4me.com\/Images\/AT%20Visit%20to%20Tomas%20Gramming%20bonsai%20pots\/tomas%20gramming%20bonsai%20pot%20(8).jpg\" alt=\"Chamaecyparis bonsai\" width=\"468\" height=\"700\" \/><\/p><p style=\"font-family: 'myriad pro'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;\" align=\"center\">As with the majority of his trees, Tomas originally started this Thuja\/Cedar bonsai from humble beginnings.<\/p><p style=\"font-family: 'myriad pro'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;\" align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bonsai4me.com\/Images\/AT%20Visit%20to%20Tomas%20Gramming%20bonsai%20pots\/tomas%20gramming%20bonsai%20pot%20(9).jpg\" alt=\"Hornbem raft bonsai\" width=\"645\" height=\"550\" \/><\/p><p style=\"font-family: 'myriad pro'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;\" align=\"center\">Hornbeam raft bonsai, created as an airlayer.<\/p><p style=\"font-family: 'myriad pro'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;\" align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bonsai4me.com\/Images\/AT%20Visit%20to%20Tomas%20Gramming%20bonsai%20pots\/tomas%20gramming%20bonsai%20pot%20(10).jpg\" alt=\"Acer campestre Field Maple bonsai\" width=\"510\" height=\"550\" \/><\/p><p style=\"font-family: 'myriad pro'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;\" align=\"center\">Acer campestre\/ Field Maple bonsai over rock.<\/p><p style=\"font-family: 'myriad pro'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;\" align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bonsai4me.com\/Images\/AT%20Visit%20to%20Tomas%20Gramming%20bonsai%20pots\/tomas%20gramming%20bonsai%20pot%20(11).jpg\" alt=\"Acer campestre Field Maple bonsai\" width=\"709\" height=\"550\" \/><\/p><p style=\"font-family: 'myriad pro'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;\" align=\"center\">Both Sam and I commented that the rock the bonsai was sitting on seemed a great fit. Tomas explained that he had constructed it from pieces of granite and cement that he had then stained. Even on close inspection it was difficult to tell that the rock was not &#8216;real&#8217;.<\/p><p style=\"font-family: 'myriad pro'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;\" align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bonsai4me.com\/Images\/AT%20Visit%20to%20Tomas%20Gramming%20bonsai%20pots\/tomas%20gramming%20bonsai%20pot%20(12).jpg\" alt=\"Berberis bonsai\" width=\"644\" height=\"573\" \/><\/p><p style=\"font-family: 'myriad pro'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;\" align=\"center\">Berberis shohin bonsai in a Japanese painted pot.<\/p><p style=\"font-family: 'myriad pro'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;\" align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bonsai4me.com\/Images\/AT%20Visit%20to%20Tomas%20Gramming%20bonsai%20pots\/tomas%20gramming%20bonsai%20pot%20(13).jpg\" alt=\"Weigela bonsai \" width=\"644\" height=\"550\" \/><\/p><p style=\"font-family: 'myriad pro'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;\" align=\"center\">Superb Weigela semi-cascade bonsai.<\/p><p style=\"font-family: 'myriad pro'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;\" align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bonsai4me.com\/Images\/AT%20Visit%20to%20Tomas%20Gramming%20bonsai%20pots\/tomas%20gramming%20bonsai%20pot%20(15).jpg\" alt=\"Gramming bonsai pots\" width=\"711\" height=\"542\" \/><\/p><p style=\"font-family: 'myriad pro'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;\" align=\"center\">After our tour of Tomas&#8217; garden, we then visited his pottery studio. Tomas has a very precise, geometric style of pot-making, a perfect example is this &#8216;fish-scale&#8217; bonsai pot.<\/p><p style=\"font-family: 'myriad pro'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;\" align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bonsai4me.com\/Images\/AT%20Visit%20to%20Tomas%20Gramming%20bonsai%20pots\/tomas%20gramming%20bonsai%20pot%20(16).jpg\" alt=\"Gramming bonsai pots\" width=\"711\" height=\"550\" \/><\/p><p style=\"font-family: 'myriad pro'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;\" align=\"center\">We were in awe of this amazing sculptural bonsai pot; a pot within a pot. Tomas had hand-carved the piece in great detail. At this stage the pot had been &#8216;bisque-fired&#8217; at a relatively low temperature prior to glazing.<\/p><p style=\"font-family: 'myriad pro'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;\" align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bonsai4me.com\/Images\/AT%20Visit%20to%20Tomas%20Gramming%20bonsai%20pots\/tomas%20gramming%20bonsai%20pot%20(17).jpg\" alt=\"Gramming bonsai pots\" width=\"685\" height=\"500\" \/><\/p><p style=\"font-family: 'myriad pro'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;\" align=\"center\">More pots at the &#8216;bisque-fired&#8217; stage of the pot-making process, each and every one featuring strong hnad-made geometric shapes.<\/p><p style=\"font-family: 'myriad pro'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;\" align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bonsai4me.com\/Images\/AT%20Visit%20to%20Tomas%20Gramming%20bonsai%20pots\/tomas%20gramming%20bonsai%20pot%20(14).jpg\" alt=\"Gramming bonsai pots\" width=\"711\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p><p style=\"font-family: 'myriad pro'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;\" align=\"center\">Tomas Gramming showing my fellow visitors one of his bonsai pots.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The bonsai and pottery of Tomas Gramming , Gothenburg, Sweden<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1790,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,48,36],"tags":[29,91,90,81],"master_filter":[16],"type_of_content":[19],"season":[39],"acf":[],"views":598,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bonsai4me.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3234"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bonsai4me.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bonsai4me.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bonsai4me.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bonsai4me.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3234"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/bonsai4me.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3463,"href":"https:\/\/bonsai4me.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3234\/revisions\/3463"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bonsai4me.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bonsai4me.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bonsai4me.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bonsai4me.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3234"},{"taxonomy":"master_filter","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bonsai4me.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/master_filter?post=3234"},{"taxonomy":"type_of_content","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bonsai4me.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/type_of_content?post=3234"},{"taxonomy":"season","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bonsai4me.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/season?post=3234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}