Mark Fields

Mark Fields’ passion for Bonsai began at about age 9. His dad was a landscape contractor, and took him to nurseries where he noticed some small trees. The owner said that he was training them as bonsai. I began asking him more about bonsai and visited him more often. One day he loaned me two books he owned from the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, "Handbook on bonsai: Special Techniques" and "Handbook on Dwarfed Potted Trees, The Bonsai of Japan" and told me that I would learn more if I read them. He showed me how to start and grow plants from cuttings, how to prune properly and other skills I would practice as I grew older. He began a relationship with Mendel Gardens bonsai and joined Indianapolis Bonsai Club in 1979. In 2004 he traveled to Ginkgo Bonsai Center in Laarne, Belgium where he occasionally studied and worked on world class Bonsai specimens. It was truly an amazing experience and he is a much better Bonsai artist because of the experience. Through Fields Landscape Concepts and later, Bonsai by Fields, he has sold bonsai, pre-Bonsai and supplies to club members and fellow enthusiasts since the 80's and has recently started doing demo's lectures and workshops specializing in a variety of types of trees. He started a website and a new company named Bonsai by Fields,where he offers advice, grows, sells and ships bonsai, pre-Bonsai and supplies.

Peter Chan

Peter Chan is a self-taught Bonsai artist. He trained originally as a professional Electrical Engineer and worked in the UK Electricity industry and also as Energy Policy adviser in the UK Department of Energy. He gave up his 9-5 job in1986 to turn his hobby of Bonsai into a business venture. Today, his nursery ‘Herons bonsai’ is the UK’s premier Bonsai nursery. Peter is known throughout the world by the many books he has written. His first book –‘Bonsai. The Art of Growing and Keeping Miniature Trees’ was published in 1985 and is still in print. His other books include ‘Bonsai Masterclass’, ‘Choosing and Growing bonsai’ and the Readers Digest book –‘Bonsai Masterclass’. On his eight acre nursery, he grows most of the Bonsai that the company sells. Maples and other deciduous trees are among his favorite species. He has won 21 Gold Medals at Royal Horticultural Society Chelsea Flower Shows, was Chairman of the British Bonsai Association (1980- 1987), founding member of the Federation of British Bonsai Societies and patron and sponsor of the Bonsai collection at the RHS gardens in Wisley, UK. He has appeared on radio and television on many occasions to talk and demonstrate Bonsai and still demonstrates and judges at Bonsai shows. Peter’s other interests are Cycling (he was Asian cycling champion in ’63), Swimming (he is a qualified swimming instructor) and a Ballroom and Modern Jive dancer.

David Easterbrook

David Easterbrook has been a bonsai artist for over 50 years. He started studying the art of bonsai in the 80s and headed to Japan to study with Master Isao Shinkai. He then became the Curator of the collection of the Montreal Botanical Garden for nearly 30 years. He is now retired but stays busy taking care of his personal collection of over 700 specimens and teaching all over North America. He was also the founder and former president of the Montreal Bonsai and Penjing Society - a great organization composed of 400 passionate members. He dedicated his life to the wonderful art of bonsai and now shares it with as many people as possible!

David Easterbrook

David Easterbrook has been a bonsai artist for over 50 years. He started studying the art of bonsai in the 80s and headed to Japan to study with Master Isao Shinkai. He then became the Curator of the collection of the Montreal Botanical Garden for nearly 30 years. He is now retired but stays busy taking care of his personal collection of over 700 specimens and teaching all over North America. He was also the founder and former president of the Montreal Bonsai and Penjing Society - a great organization composed of 400 passionate members. He dedicated his life to the wonderful art of bonsai and now shares it with as many people as possible!

Mark Fields

Mark Fields’ passion for Bonsai began at about age 9. His dad was a landscape contractor, and took him to nurseries where he noticed some small trees. The owner said that he was training them as bonsai. I began asking him more about bonsai and visited him more often. One day he loaned me two books he owned from the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, "Handbook on bonsai: Special Techniques" and "Handbook on Dwarfed Potted Trees, The Bonsai of Japan" and told me that I would learn more if I read them. He showed me how to start and grow plants from cuttings, how to prune properly and other skills I would practice as I grew older. He began a relationship with Mendel Gardens bonsai and joined Indianapolis Bonsai Club in 1979. In 2004 he traveled to Ginkgo Bonsai Center in Laarne, Belgium where he occasionally studied and worked on world class Bonsai specimens. It was truly an amazing experience and he is a much better Bonsai artist because of the experience. Through Fields Landscape Concepts and later, Bonsai by Fields, he has sold bonsai, pre-Bonsai and supplies to club members and fellow enthusiasts since the 80's and has recently started doing demo's lectures and workshops specializing in a variety of types of trees. He started a website and a new company named Bonsai by Fields,where he offers advice, grows, sells and ships bonsai, pre-Bonsai and supplies.

Peter Chan

Peter Chan is a self-taught Bonsai artist. He trained originally as a professional Electrical Engineer and worked in the UK Electricity industry and also as Energy Policy adviser in the UK Department of Energy. He gave up his 9-5 job in1986 to turn his hobby of Bonsai into a business venture. Today, his nursery ‘Herons bonsai’ is the UK’s premier Bonsai nursery. Peter is known throughout the world by the many books he has written. His first book –‘Bonsai. The Art of Growing and Keeping Miniature Trees’ was published in 1985 and is still in print. His other books include ‘Bonsai Masterclass’, ‘Choosing and Growing bonsai’ and the Readers Digest book –‘Bonsai Masterclass’. On his eight acre nursery, he grows most of the Bonsai that the company sells. Maples and other deciduous trees are among his favorite species. He has won 21 Gold Medals at Royal Horticultural Society Chelsea Flower Shows, was Chairman of the British Bonsai Association (1980-1987), founding member of the Federation of British Bonsai Societies and patron and sponsor of the Bonsai collection at the RHS gardens in Wisley, UK. He has appeared on radio and television on many occasions to talk and demonstrate Bonsai and still demonstrates and judges at Bonsai shows. Peter’s other interests are Cycling (he was Asian cycling champion in ’63), Swimming (he is a qualified swimming instructor) and a Ballroom and Modern Jive dancer.