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Top; Abstract stone from Tuscany, Italy. This is a cut stone. Gray
Palombino.
Bottom; Plateau stone, Palombino collected around 1991 at Lake
Giacopiane, Liguria, Italy
in bonsai in 1988, and studied with Giovanni Genotti.
Around 1990 she began to learn about suiseki as well.
She helped bring many bonsai masters to Italy, and
travelled abroad to attend bonsai and suiseki work-
shops with the masters: Naka, Nakamura, Suzuki,
Imazumi, Noelanders, Terakawa, Lewis, Barton, Li-
porace, Metaxas, and Benz. She also studied stone art
at home with Luciana Queirolo and Andrea Schenone,
and took woodworking classes in Ivrea for several
years to learn the skills for carving and finishing daiza.
Chiara was a founding member of several Italian
bonsai clubs, wrote the Bylaws, and held offices over
twenty years including secretary, treasurer, General
director and President. She helped promote the first
Bonsai School in Italy with Japanese masters Susumu
Nakamura and Hideo Suzuki, and assisted in the
first Bonsai Instructors Register. She was involved in
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