Art and Abart

This is one of two etchings I made after visiting the Hafenstadt and seeing all the cranes working on the Elbphilharmonie . Shortly before ...

This is Hamburg, taken from the train that crosses the bridge between the inner Alster lake (in the photo) and the outer Alster. A cityscape...

A lot of new apartments have been built in Hamburg's new district, the Hafenstadt (=Harbour City). It is a bit like Pyrmont in Sydney. A...

The Speicherstadt on the Elbe River in Hamburg is the part of the city where traders used to store their wares.   The Speicherstadt is now...

More from the end of year show at art school. The sleeping couple .... a reference to John and Yoko? A cupboard which looked as if it h...

The semester is over here and the end of year show. The day before the show students were very busy hammering and painting and putting their...

The wonderful music on this little movie is a piece by Brahms called Feldeinsamkeit. It is freely (and legally) available for download onlin...

Most of the corridors in the art school building are enormous, much wider and higher than the one covered with a web (previous post). It i...

A couple of months ago the second floor corridor at school was suddenly covered in a web ... along the walls, the roof and the floor. So it ...

This is the print press I am using. Goodness knows how long it has been standing in this room but I have become rather fond of it. When yo...

This was the first etching I made when I started school here. It reflects the feeling I had wandering through the beech woods in April as th...

Wuppertal valley north of Cologne.

I went to Cologne yesterday and spent several hours in the Ludwig Museum. They have a wonderful collection of German expressionists and Pica...

Roses, painted at the Uetersen Rosarium (under an umbrella in the rain) yesterday.

Uetersen, on the outskirts of Hamburg is a thriving rose breeding center and the Uetersen Rosarium is a 'must-see' for rose enthusia...

Drawn in the train today on the way to the Hamburg art gallery. The trains were overflowing as it was a car-free day and trains travel was f...

It looks like a painting but it is a photo.

Today all the lighthouses along the Elbe River were open to the public. I rode down the rather steep hill to the Rissener Lighthouse to have...

Hamburg, like Venice, is built on water. The Town Hall sits on one of the tributaries that run from the Alster Lake to the Elbe River. Boat...