Art and Abart

Meet Edward Elephant. Greta is designing and making toys out of recycled materials. One of her first was Edward E who is made entirely from...

This is baby Zeinab with her mother and her mother's friend Helen having a coffee in Rockdale. When I showed them the picture they were ...

Yesterday was Ruby's tenth birthday.

I am back in Sydney. The oldest (over 100 years) part of this Banksia house has ornate ceilings, common among houses of the period. It make...

This is the door to the Victorian Art Gallery. It reminded me of the water screen in the Adelaide production of Das Rheingold in 2004 which...

    Tiles in St Paul's Cathedral, Melbourne.

This sign seems to me to say a lot about Melbourne. In Sydney, Government signs and warnings are negative and admonishing. This little sign...

    There are a lot of old character houses in Brunswich and this is one of them. Most are wooden, with fancy fireplaces and gardens out the...

The fireplace in the house where I am staying.

The dog is called Jackson.

Softer than Sydney, less hectic, fewer sharp elbows, friendlier and more artistically vibrant; weather more variable, grayer, less humid, te...

It is raining and what was dust yesterday is a mud puddle today. This picture is of the reflection of a tree in the decking behind the house...

I arrived in Melbourne yesterday. Sydney has been having rain and is lush, but it is a different story in Melbourne. The gardens are dry and...

In a Kingston Cafe.

One thing that Canberra has going for it is the new National Portrait Gallery. The building itself is elegant and fits well into the landsca...

I've just been to Canberra for 2 days. The people I met were unfailingly friendly when I asked directions, the trees are lovely and tra...

At a Rockdale Cafe.