Page 18 - Tạp chí bonsai cây cảnh BCI 2013Q4

a great passion for
stones

BCI Director Profile Appreciating Chiara Padrini By Kathy
Coffman, USA
Photos courtesy
Chiara Padrini

n her autobiographical sketch, Chiara has stated, “A resume is some-
thing dry and impersonal, but behind every line there is life, passion
Iand hard work.” She encourages her students not to waste much time
reading her resume, but to get to know her for who she is, and what she
has accomplished.
Chiara was born in Voghera, in the Piedmont area of Italy. She became
Above; Chocolate interested in minerals as a child during summer vacations in Drusacco,
stone, Nam Han river, where the miners would bring up beautiful specimens from the mine for
South Korea her. In her teens and early twenties Chiara was a fencer, and while attend-
Below; Arch stone, ing the Olympic games in Tokyo in 1964 met her future husband, the
Palombino stone, brother of a fellow fencer. She raised three sons, who share her enthusiasm
Liguria, Italy
for traveling, and has three beloved grandchildren. She became interested

16 | BCI | October/November/December 2013