Art and Abart

On 15-17th May I am having an exhibition in Aldeburgh in Suffolk, UK. I will be showing my 'Wagner Inspired' etchings as part of th...

Banksia is, I have discovered, just a 10 minutes walk from Rockdale. If Australia is a melting pot then Rockdale is close to the center of t...

The fires in Victoria are dreadful and hard to imagine in Sydney as it is raining here. Unfortunately it is our new reality . Perhaps now th...

The roots are pulled, chattels in storage and I have decamped. I am staying in Banksia, a Sydney suburb only 15 car minutes south of my fami...

  Taihape is a pretty place. I took my easel when I was there over Christmas. Taihape paintings.

The nice man who installed my audio equipment put in cables so the TV can be switched thorough the amp and I can control everything with one...

Rubber ducky (sadly deteriorated) has gone to watch the stars from close range and ... the tulip paintings are packed which means the remov...

I wonder if I am the only person in Dunedin that uses my bath water for the washing machine? I discovered last year that the old and very in...

Phew it is hot in Dunedin. 30C yesterday, 30C today and tomorrow is going to be hot as well. Although it is nearly 10pm it is still 28C insi...

The boxes are filling, most paintings are packed, but not these tulip paintings. I am going to leave them hanging until just before I leave ...

Why is it that the countryside of ones childhood retains a special place in ones heart regardless of how long one has been away? These are t...

Well not so mellow perhaps, but certainly yellow. I have just sewn a bag to put my painting backpack in so it can be sent in the hold of an ...

I am back in Dunedin and it is wonderful to be here. But I am packing again. Every shop has a sale on but I am discarding rather than acquir...

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...