Art and Abart

The website is down... Check this out .. it had me laughing out loud. Does that mean I am a geek? I don't think so.

I drew this recently at a concert by a trio that included harpist Yolanda Kondonassis. I was sitting in the front row next to two high schoo...

  Five (car) minutes from central Dunedin on an inlet from Otago Habour is Andersons Bay.   A causeway across the bay leads to the coast roa...

Footie fans at the Octagon. Science week was on as well in Dunedin and in the Future Food van you can see behind the footie fans I read tha...

This group of boaties were pulling up their boat in the late afternoon yesterday. They seemed to be in a hurry and perhaps they were going t...

I flew back from Sydney prepared for bitter cold but it was 18C and the shuttle bus driver was in shirt sleeves. Today was just as warm whic...

Children at Camdenville School in Newtown celebrate Naidoc week.

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.