Art and Abart

So what are these people in Bremerhaven watching? They are watching this gate slowly open ... to let the boats through. The lighthouse th...

The art gallery in Bremerhaven has a sign on the window saying: 'Art ... nothing else'. The building is rather small but with an in...

Bremerhaven (Bremer-harbour) is a city of waterways and boats. Boats in the 'museum habour', boats tied up in the river ... ...bo...

The sun is shining but it is cool outside. These houses with glass walls facing south are perfect for days like this.

Later late summer. Every time the wind blows chestnusts rain down from the talls trees above. 'Clunk, clunk' they go as they land on...

Cedric is asleep at my feet. Cedric is an old dog and blind and his owners did not expect him to see last year out. He is still alive though...

Hamburg again: one minute pouring, the next minute sunshine. It feels like spring but squirrels scamper across the streets carrying chestnut...

In Austria the mountains south of Salzburg are high and craggy. As you travel north past the Chiemsee lake near Munich you can still see the...

The shops in Graz inner city lanes are full of interesting stuff.... rings made of red leather and silver, ... bags made of thick wool patc...

In a tiny place just around the corner from the tourist restaurants I sip my beer, wait for my schnitzel and sketch the neighbourhood.

How many angels and other figures can you fit above an alter? In Graz at least, a great many. It would be hard to fit any more ornamentation...

The wonderful thing about European cities is that the centers are car free. Instead of noise and pollution you have peace and tranquillity, ...

There is always someting on in Maribor's market square. The other day it was historical enactments.

Alas the Maribor festival is over. This evening's concert in the packed Maribor Cathedral was Rachmaninov then Mozart's Requeim. Th...

The autumn market in Maribor... features the same puppets in wheelbarrows that you find in the museum in the Ptuj Castle. They seem a happy...

In the Maribor town square is a big round dark sculpture made to honour war heros. The faces on it are made by imprinting thick then thin li...

Eva-Nina: Sixteen and an exceptional flautist...

The sun has come out again in Maribor. Down by the river is a cafe with bright green cushions that serves excellent coffee. I went there thi...

In the markets, in the concert halls ... there is music everywhere in Maribor.

I have been sitting up on stage today sketching the cellists. The players are used to me by now so are not disturbed.