Art and Abart

Flap, flap, flap .... vroom. I am off to Taihape for Christmas. Bags are packed, shuttle pick-up is at 7am tomorrow morning.

My clock, made in the ceramics class earlier in the year. tick .... tock.... tick.... tock.... it measures the seconds as I write.

I read in today's paper that NZers do more exercise than most. Certainly we get enough messages that we should be more active. There is ...

Six months before coming to Dunedin I traveled to Europe. I visited Stina in England who taught me how to do monoprints. I spent a delighte...

I grew up in the shadow of the Ruahine Ranges to the S/E of Mt Ngauruhoe, an active volcano which, we children were told, had once erupted s...

The brief for our three week jewellery module was to create something that links material and identity. I made a ring from a tooth cap that ...

The girl stood piping in the sunshine on the lawn in front of the Dunedin Railway Station. The music drifted over the morning air to the mar...

'Coffee pot' This is an etching with aquatint. An etching is made by drawing on a metal plate - in this case, a zinc plate. Aquatin...

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.