Art and Abart

Boots and brolly is what we have been needing these last few weeks. These are mine, lying on my doormat. I thought them picturesque enough t...

My first lino cut.

It rained, it hailed, then it snowed. Today Dunedin feels like an alpine village. Bright sunshine but very cold with frost until lunch time....

..it's pouring, the old man is snoring...

I read in the newspaper that the Beijing Olympics Opening Ceremony was wonderful. Ten out of ten they say. I can't find a single video o...

On Saturday a crowd of over 700 marched along the main street of Dunedin to the Octagon to protest against Council proposing to take a loan...

  Dunedin was on the fringe of the big storm that hit NZ this week, but we got heavy rain regardless.

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...