Art and Abart

Ceramics is magic. Just a bit of heat and smoke is all it takes to transform this: To this:

Today dawned clear and blue. I haven't painted outside since autumn but the day was too nice to waste so I took myself up the High Road ...

Spring is arriving. The Prunus beside the ceramics studio is in flower. Yaaaay!

I have never had much of a feel for ceramics and I found the first week in the ceramics workshop rather underwhelming. Slowly though, I real...

I have progressed to the ceramics workshop .... from digital art to ceramics, it is quite a jump. We are having a cold snap and the ceramics...

This is a little bit of a poster I made with photoshop on the way to making a movie. In my movie the bubbles float over the Otago landscape.

I have been glued to the computer these last two weeks, creating a 2 minute movie and learning the software in the process. My first effort ...

In the 'Digital and Moving Image' Workshop we were asked to choose music to illustrate the words ' A shy incongruous charm'...

This was the scene at the local bookstore in Dunedin this morning. At 11:00 am they all cheered as the boxes of Harry Potter books were open...

I spent 3 weeks in Sydney over the semester break. There was snow falling as I left. Sydney has winter too but a different sort of winter an...

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 .