Gary Allumbaugh,

a Denver native, graduated from Colorado State University with a B.F.A. in Graphic Design and Sculpture. After a successful career managing Retail Design with the May Co. in Denver and Rich's in Atlanta, Gary has come back to his creative roots.

Over the years a fascination of bonsai culture has grown thanks in part to Rodney Clemons (master bonsai horticulturist) and getting to work on the amazing bonsai collection housed at the Smith-Gilbert Garden in Kennesaw, GA.

Always being a design outlier, Gary began experimenting with his own bonsai style. As his styling evolved, Gary realized that traditional bonsai pottery didn't fit with his new non-traditional bonsai approach. So in 2017 Gary started RHDbonsai to explore designing and producing unique bonsai containers.

While concentrating his energy on bonsai a new creative bug bit, watercolor. Though not having picked up a watercolor brush since college, Gary jumped feet first into experimenting with how far he could push the medium. The result is RHDstudios, an atlier combining Gary's 2 and 3 dimensional energies.