Art and Abart

Tea at Soul It is hard to choose a favourite cafe in Taihape because there are three excellent cafes in town but the cafe I particularly...

As I painted this picture in a cafe (a cafe that makes the BEST coffee ever), the woman behind the bar learnt over and said "It looks a...

Why is it that New Zealand has interesting and informative newspapers and magazines while Australia does not? The NZ Listener is a case in p...

Taihape has several cafes and they all make excellent coffee. One of them is the Soul Food Cafe in the middle of the main street. Their coff...

Not many parts of historic Sydney have managed to save themselves from the wreckers ball but one small gem that remains is the historic whar...

What is it about fresh flowers that is so captivating? Some artificial flowers are so realistic nowadays that you have to touch them to see ...

Over the last week I have been painting small pictures to hang in Gino's Italian Cafe here in Rissen. Gino is a real gem, an Italian who...

There are coffee shops on every corner in Maribor and each of them is distinctive. This one behind my hotel has a steel tree inside and  ......

I have been feeling a bit dislocated and I decided that now I have discovered a cafe with good light I should go and paint there more often....

Is a lifetime spent in cafes a wasted life do you think?   Cinque Cafe in King Street, Sydney - Newtown ..   and C Cafe just down the road....

It seems to me that cafes say a lot about a city. Here are some in Berlin: Under the railway at Hackischer Markt. On the river almost opposi...

I drew Suzanne reading the morning papers in a Cafe in Zürich on a Saturday morning. The Cafe (I have forgotten the name)was a pleasant pla...

Painting people while sipping a long coffee is a pastime I particularly enjoy. I have been painting at Modaks this past year and today I hun...