Art and Abart

The words the weather forecasters are using for the weather in Dunedin are 'raw' and bitter'. It is because of the gale force wi...

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...

Part of my art school project: 'self portrait with Ta Moko' .I learned how to paint the eyes by looking at paintings in a recent exh...

Well we didn't have to wait until evening. A storm blew through a minute ago and covered my south window. I can see big snow clouds bil...

Winter has arrived. This morning it snowed and now it is blowing, sleeping, raining and generally horrible. Even the hardy locals are lookin...

The art school is housed in an old school on the edge of Otago University Campus. This is the lunch area - photo taken in summer. Behind the...

Here is the child with candle image again - this time with a restraining hand.

Dunedin has great sunrises and sunsets. This sunset was taken out of my living room window. Yesterday the sunrise was stunning - but I didn...

Another work from my painting class. Yes, the knife and fork are there, if you look hard.

This is the finished 'child with candle' painting with yellow undercoat. The beginning of this painting is below .

Coming back to NZ has confronted me with some identity issues . I am exploring them in a painting - which is still in the first stages. The...

Nice weather from top to bottom of NZ. This is the view from my dining room window. Just to the right of the washing line, tucked away behi...

I bought an easel this morning from ... where everyone gets a bargain. The box was too big to fit in the car so I had to unpack it. Just as ...

For my painting project I decided to try different coloured undercoats. This is the beginning of my picture using a yellow undercoat.

Here is the same image painted using tints of red, blue and orange. Right side is cool, left side is warm. These are the sort of studies you...

Art school is much more time consuming than I expected but that's fine by me. Suddenly I have a reason to read art history, something I ...

Another photo from the Dunedin Prison series. Both photography series are now online.

A Farmers Market is held in Dunedin every Saturday morning. Its a great place to buy organic vegetables, organic meat (which I have not see...

Are these not the most glorious flowers? A birthday gift from Alison.

We are back at school today after a 2 weeks break, beavering away in the photo lab. The Hocken Library is a specialist research library whi...