Robert Steven
Robert Steven was born in North Sumatra in 1958. He
started creating and collecting bonsai in 1979, and
currently has a permanent exhibit center where he displays
his bonsai collection of over 300 in a wide variety
of species. He is a keen promoter of "Shushe Penjing,"
"Shuihan Penjing" and "Chinese Rock Penjing,"
as well as of expressionistic and surrealistic bonsai
styles. In creating a bonsai or penjing, Robert believes
that "we should involve our emotion to express
our character and message in order to give the 'soul'
to the tree."
He conducts many bonsai and penjing lectures and demonstrations
abroad and appears on a national TV program. Robert
writes bonsai and penjing articles for newspapers and
magazines, and is a columnist for the Readers Forum
in BCI magazine. He is currently co-authoring a book
entitled "Bonsai Art, the Styles, Appreciation
& Technique."
Robert has won more than 50 competition awards nationally
and internationally, including: Entry Award of 2000
JAL World Bonsai Contest; Entry Award of 2000 Ben Oki
International Design Award; Runner-up Winner of 2001
Ben Oki International Design Award; First Winner of
2001 Certre Award Competition; Runner-up Winner of 2002
Ben Oki International Design Award; Runner-up Winner
of 2002 Certre Award Competition; Entry Award of 2003
JAL World Bonsai Contest; and Runner-up Winner of World
Bonsai Contest 2003.
He is very active in national and international bonsai
organizations. He is the Director of Public Relations
& International Affairs of the Indonesian Bonsai
Society (PPBI); the Secretary General of the Asia-Pacific
Bonsai Friendship Federation (ABFF); a Director of Bonsai
Clubs International (BCI) (2002-2004); PPBI's Ambassador
to BCI; a member of the Jury of PPBI doing domestic
and international bonsai judging; and the Coordinator
of the "Ismail Saleh Award," an international
Bonsai Photo Contest.
His can be reached at:
Robert's Village
Jl. Batu Tulis VIII No. 27-A, Jakarta 10120, Indonesia
Tel. +62-21-3510465, 34833358 Fax. +62-21-3459486, 6599033
Email : markamtr@cbn.net.id
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