Art and Abart

When I arrived in New Zealand, I bought a little ponamu (greenstone) Koru in Greymouth to signify new beginnings. I like it a lot it but som...

>> at t he tuv shop. Something to smile about. (Thanks Pia !)

Spring has sprung. Blossom petals waft down onto the Leith River and students stop for a minute to look as they hurry between classes.

I am learning sculpture techniques by making kiwis ... first a model in cardboard. It had to be at least one meter long and not use glue or...

Music again. Music of course. Yesterday we unloaded the kiln. The good, the bad and the ugly. The ceramics that had been given up as failure...

Yesterday was 22C and out came the T-shirts. Today is 7C and there was snow on the hills when we woke this morning.

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...