Art and Abart

A week in Sydney. Time to get over jetlag (sort of) and photograph the ceramics that came through the kiln just before I left for Germany. ...

If you can't sleep on long haul flights, you watch a movie. Then another one and then another one. Even if the ones you watch are all go...

Sketches from the opera Peter Grimes in Bremerhaven are online at artsmitten.com.

On a sunny day Hamburg is really lovely. The trees on the Alster Lake have just begun to turn colour. The sun glistens on the waterway in f...

I sit painting roses in momenti italiani in Rissen. Next day I go back to paint some more.

said Ralph Waldo Emerson. A bit like music really. I have been painting roses recently at momenti italiani , a new Cafe in Rissen that make...

BREMEN: Pigs in the main street  ... ... lead you to a church .... and coffee.

Bremerhaven is half an hour by fast train or an hour by S-Bahn from Bremen and the Gasthof an der Karlstadt is in a quiet little side stree...

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...