Ryan Neil is an American bonsai artist.[1]
Early life
editNeil grew up in Colorado and went to California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, majoring in horticulture and studying Japanese.[2][3]
Career
editHe apprenticed under Japanese bonsai artist Masahiko Kimura for six years.[4][5] Neil is the only westerner to complete Kimura's full apprenticeship.[6]
After returning to the United States, he [7] founded a bonsai business Bonsai Mirai outside of St. Helens, Oregon.[8][9] Bonsai Mirai is a bonsai studio and nursery that hosts classes, trains apprentices, sells to collectors, and boards and maintains clients' bonsai. The location was chosen because of its temperate, wet climate and the availability of yamadori, trees growing in the wild that are suitable for bonsai.[5] It houses over 800 bonsai.[10]
Neil's bonsai were exhibited in "American Bonsai: The Unbridled Art of Ryan Neil" at the Portland Japanese Garden in 2016. Also in 2016, Ryan organized "The Artisans Cup," a juried competition of American bonsai held at the Portland Art Museum.[6] Neil hosts the podcast Asymmetry.
Neil is featured in the 2023 HBO Documentary by Irene Taylor, "Trees and Other Entanglements."[11]
Personal life
editNeil has a son.[12]
References
edit- ^ Snyder, Michael (9 November 2021). "The Ever-Evolving Art of Bonsai". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 2021-11-14. Retrieved 2023-09-12.
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) - ^ "New American Masters – Ryan Neil". bonsaitonight.com. 5 October 2012.
- ^ "Meet the Man Who Grows Mini Million-Dollar Trees". architecturaldigest.com. 2 May 2017.
- ^ "Ryan Neil, the Bonsai Master". pen-online.com. 22 November 2018.
- ^ a b "The Bonsai Kid". craftsmanship.net. 15 September 2015.
- ^ a b "Is Portland The Epicenter Of An American Bonsai Movement?". opb. Retrieved 2023-03-20.
- ^ "How two Glenwood Springs High School grads changed bonsai in the United States". The Denver Post. 2015-10-03. Retrieved 2023-03-20.
- ^ Robinson, Britany (25 May 2016). "Learning to grow: the American bonsai master who starved for knowledge". The Guardian. theguardian.com.
- ^ "Meet Ryan Neil". shoutoutcolorado.com.
- ^ Oregonian/OregonLive, Janet Eastman | The (2016-05-11). "'Unbridled' American bonsai: Portland Japanese Garden's living art exhibit (photos, video)". oregonlive. Retrieved 2023-03-20.
- ^ "Trees, and Other Entanglements". imdb.com.
- ^ Moor, Robert (14 November 2022). "The Beautiful, Brutal World of Bonsai". The New Yorker. newyorker.com.