Art and Abart

On my way to Bayreuth (pre-Covid) to hear Wagner's operas Tristan and Isolde and Parsifal I stayed with friends in Hamburg. Sitting on ...

St James Theatre, Wellington Producing The Flying Dutchman is quite an undertaking for a recently formed opera company but Wagner...

Huge sails soared to the ceiling of the Sydney Opera House concert hall on Saturday night. A sailing ship ... oh  yes ...  The Flying Dutchm...

I have just started reading Richard Wagner's letters to his muse Mathilda Wesendonk and her husband Otto, 1853-1856. There seems to be a...

Happy 200th Birthday Richard Wagner!  On this 22 May there are Wagner-comments all over the blogosphere, ranging from the less than enthusia...

"I was particularly captivated by the personality of that gifted Emperor Frederich II., … it delighted me to find in the German mind ...

I am reading a fascinating book, the autobiography of Richard Wagner called My Life . It is such an interesting insight into how life was li...

Today I sorted through the boxes of materials I had accumulated while writing Blue Tulips . As I worked a tiny (about 3cm wide) circle of pa...

This weekend I am going to a weekend workshop called Forging Meaning out of Music Heritage, Complexity and Vision of the Ring with Dr Anton...

Next year is Richard Wagner's 200th birthday and I have been working on some Wagner-related art for a 2013 exhibition. I also made some ...

Richard Wagner was born in May 1813 and in honour of the bicentenary of his birth, many opera houses  including Opera Australia are prepar...

This is a painting by Rupprecht Geiger called 402/64 . Geiger was one of Germany's foremost abstract artists and painted mainly in red...

My exhibition in Aldeburgh was held at the same time as a 3 day event organised by the London Wagner Society which I also attended. We saw f...

I have just spent a week in the UK, a flying visit to put on an exhibition in Aldeburgh in conjunction with a 3 day event that was being hel...

On 15-17th May I am having an exhibition in Aldeburgh in Suffolk, UK. I will be showing my 'Wagner Inspired' etchings as part of th...

I finished the jewellery workshop yesterday. I worked in copper with gold leaf and based my work on Wagner's music. Raum/Zeit (Musical n...