Art and Abart

I have a house! After lots of looking at 'rennovators dreams' I finally found a cottage with a 'loved' feel and only needing...

Finally!  It took a while but I now have the paintings and sketches I made at the Maribor Music Festival in September 2010 online at www.art...

Here is your reason to go to Bremerhaven. This trailer shows just what small opera houses can do. Last October I drew Miriam in Bremerhav...

I drew this as I sat waiting for a friend at the Opera Quays Dendy theatre last weekend. We were seeing the Metropolitan Opera's new pro...

Manly is much improved since I last visited many years ago, but the best part is still getting there by ferry. It is a magic trip.

This is the view through the window of Lou Jack's Cafe on Newtown's King Street at 8:30am. I love this time of the year in Sydney w...

I have put a series of watercolours painted in NZ in November online at artsmitten.com . This one is of Dunedin's Mt Cargill. A cloud o...

I have often seen Sydney's New Year fireworks but for the first time this year I had a box seat at an apartment in Greenwich. I could se...

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?