Art and Abart

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My project paintings are finally finished, or at least I think so. I have painted a series of self portraits. I put my specs on in this pain...

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...

Air New Zealand has announced they are going to fly international flights to Dunedin under their own flag from March 2008 instead of under t...

I don't know ... I just like it...

Rita Angus held a cigarette as a sign of her independence in 1936. I wasn't sure what my image should hold. Things that signify women...

Daylight saving began last Sunday so we now have long evenings. I have been painting inside all day so I went for a walk this evening up the...

I am reading about New Zealand artists and have decided to paint a self portrait with a nod to the Self Portrait painted by Rita Angus in 19...

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.