Art and Abart

Jewellery class students collecting rocks on an argillite outcrop at Colac Bay, east of Invercargill. Argillite is a greenish stone, origina...

I was astonished to hear from a lecturer at art school that he found my video confronting. He is so used to semi-clad female forms dancing i...

It took me a long time to warm to printing, but finally when I started experimenting with colour I got the bug. Our print course is finished...

Our 5 self portraits are due to be handed in tomorrow. I am not sure they are getting any more like with time. Self, in the style of Elizab...

The stained glass window in the Dunedin Railway Station is one of the heritage objects in the city I like best. Dunedin is full of heritage...

Greta (aka Adrenalentil) made the track 'Softest Thing' in the 1990s. During our school holidays this week I made a 'mash up...

Number 3: Self portrait in dots.

Our current teacher insists on us drawing v-e-r-y s-l-o-w-l-y. This drawing is charcoal and chalk on brown paper.

I was dreaming, walking along with thoughts elsewhere and suddenly in front of me was a picture of nature at her most perfect. On the tree b...

In eArt we are also drawing self portraits. This one was made this afternoon using Adobe Illustrator.

Our home work for drawing is a series of self portrait sketches. The first one had to be on black, light source from one side. Not sure abo...

Here is Heinrich ... watching the sunset, dreaming of sitting for his portrait once again.

BLU > MUTO

In our eArt class we had to make a video with at least one loop and a 'synergistic sound track to mesh with the film loop'. My group...

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...