Art and Abart

Brrr. The forecast for Dunedin is "bitter southwester with sleet and hail, clearing." Time to escape the antarctic weather and...

I put some more music ceramics online .

Sound Cloud , one of my ceramic pieces in the 'Handled' exhibition that opened this evening at Whiteroom at 31 Moray Place in Dunedi...

The ceramics and jewellery students are having an exhibition - it opens next Tuesday so we are all scurrying around tying up the loose ends.

Our eArt class project this morning was to create a 20 second video from images without restrictive copyright. Most of what I found was on U...

Perhaps they are not visible on this photograph, but this ceramic has images of saints on it. I made it after reading about a wealthy Russia...

Stunning colours in Queenstown.

Anzac weekend in Queenstown. There is no snow on Coronet Peak yet but I suppose it wont be long. Autumn colour in the garden. The Shotov...

Kevin Rudd says 'sorry' and I make ceramic sorry-pots. Out of the pots emerge tender young shoots. I think it is hard for people liv...

Yesterday was a mild, pleasant late summer; today is cold, stormy winter with snow on the hills. The long spell of mild weather had lulled u...

9am at St Clair in Dunedin and the surfers sniff the wind. I went to St Clair this morning to meet a friend. It is only about 5 minutes driv...

A bit of the Leith River near the art school. Painted on small boards.

He looks at me. I look at him.

At Papatowai in the southern verge of the Caitlins you can't go past the green bus called the Lost Gypsy Gallery. It is one of a kind. ...

The flat calm river near Papatowai reflects the hills and vegetation.     The view from the Papatowai Hilltops Backpackers. It is a great pl...

This is what I have decided to write my essay on this term.

Here is a treat for all those who like, or even those who never liked, computer games. If you loved it, there are more at NOTsoNOISY .

When you drive up up and over the hill north of Dunedin then down the other side to the coast you come to the village of Waitati. The little...

After two months away I am back in Dunedin. Blue skies, lovely weather, students drifting back, turquoise sea pounding on the doorstep. My n...