Art and Abart

New Zealand mourns the lost miners but we all so admire Australian Peter Whittall, a man very different from some of his media colleagues fr...

Where else do you find the most beautiful peonies in a glass jar?

Upstairs violinists, downstairs Dunedin Art School graduates celebrate with friends and relatives.

This portrait of Franz Liszt is made of ceramic. He is part of a series of ceramic portraits I made when I was in Dunedin. I unpacked them...

Flowershop in Dunedin ..... next to the coffee shop featured below.

Tasman likes to sit on the top of the chair-back looking out at the view. Time passes and Tasman looks. More time passes and Tasman looks s...

I read in the New Yorker (Oct 2010) that John Cage once tried to sell  a silent work to the Musak Company. Wouldn't it be wonderful if h...

Trial, error, frustration and sore eyes. I have been back in the film room relearning long forgotten software.

Cumulus clouds rolling over Dunedin's hills.

The Met Service prediction: Today : 26°C    Friday 17°C   S aturday 26°C     Sunday 16°C Huge great drops have just started falling fr...

Coronet Peak Landscape in watercolour and ink.

Central Otago is stunningly beautiful. Blue hills, yellow broom and gorse, tan hills and emerald green waterways. In the evening the hills t...

This 'period charmer' I am house-sitting in Dunedin's North East Valley has a  bay window that looks out over the hills opposite...

The rhododendrons in Dunedin's botanic gardens are a mass of flowers. Wander down the hill and you come across some huge trees, includi...

Azaleas in Dunedin's Botanic Gardens.

How confusing. Two weeks ago it was Hamburg and autumn and now it is Dunedin (NZ) and early spring. All the rhododendrons are in flower and ...