Art and Abart

The cafe at the Art Gallery of NSW serves tea in little white teapots. Watercolour captures the charm of such objects better than most medi...

This newly rennovated Westfield shopping center sits amongst Sydney's charming old brick buildings. I suppose someone thought white glas...

In Hamburg I saw a very amusing verson of Meistersinger and drew while I watched. The pics are on artsmitten.com. Here is Johan Botha sing...

A modern Michelangelo at work in a small Italian-themed shopping area in Ettalong Beach. The difference between this Michelangelo and the o...

Early morning in Patonga on the Central Coast. I took this photo then went back to bed ... A little while later, my wall turned into a mura...

This view was painted from a hill but Otago Harbour looked just like this from the air as I flew out.

Dunedin is one of my favorite places. The views are stunning. This is Dunedin from the Otago Penninsula. Dunedin's building have integr...

In Germany I bought a (surprisingly cheap) block of Milka chocolate and I had to throw most of it away. It tasted like chemical mush. I forg...

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.