Esprit Bonsai International – August 2019

56 - EspritBonsaiInternational #101

Spotlight
on Broadleaves
Created by Laurent Darrieux
[LAW] and Hervé Dora [Vev],
the Burton style evokes trees
that come from another
planet. This elm, Ulmus
parvifolia, won a prize at the
European Bonsai-San Show
2018, in Saulieu, France.

The Burton style, a new style created

by Law and Vev in 2006, is still stoking

debate, even though a tree that adheres

to it has been awarded a prize in a major

European exhibition.

Author: Laurent Darrieux [“Law”]

When Hervé Dora (“Vev”)

and I created the Burton style – named

in honour of Tim Burton and the

worlds he conjures up – in 2006, we

had no idea that it would cause such

a stir or give rise to such a mass of

backbiting and bad faith. We’ve heard

it all along the course of a journey that

has consisted of producing in real life

what we had envisioned on paper.

Many of our detractors claimed that

you can’t work with a tree which has

long branches, that over-wiring a tree

will eventually lead to its demise, etc.

So many false assertions that we

have overturned through practice, by

A Burton-style elm

On the unconditional right

to be creative