Art and Abart

These wonderful creatures couldn't contain themselves and embraced each other in the kiln. Now they are stuck together for life.

A page from my drawing notepad. Ivor (drawing teacher) immediately said "Ah, Escher" when he saw it.  I had not consciously copi...

Do you feel like this sometimes? A balancing act with uncertain ground beneath you? I made this 'painting' (construction?) during t...

Kilns are magic. You put stuff in that looks as if it should be thrown in the tip, fire it to 1280C and out come lucsious browns and blues p...

The boxes are gone (or stored in the garage actually) and my cottage looks like a home at last. The contents of the boxes have been spirited...

Today's babies are not even out of nappies before they are computing. This 19 month old wakes up, climbs on the chair and logs on, unbek...

The pile of boxes is growing smaller. Shelves and drawers have been rearranged several times as each new box is opened. All the stuff that s...

and out hops a kiwi. In our first year sculpture class at Dunedin Art School we had to learn to use lathes and electric saws without cuttin...

Its here! My furniture has arrived from Dunedin without major mishap. After three and a half months of living with minimal stuff, the house ...

Life brings nice surprises. In 2009 I drew a musician playing an unusual instrument in the streets of the village of Rissen in Hamburg. A li...

If you see The String Contingent advertised, go and have a listen as they are worth the effort. I saw them (a trio of Double Bass, Guitar an...

The door. Once it was cream, then dark blue, then pale blue.  (Now it is white)

I am back to painting on canvas. Time just disappears when I have a canvas instead of walls to paint. Makes me realise how I love it. The im...

Pink pink pink. Pink walls, pink ceiling, pink lampshade, pink floor. No, not pink floor, but the pink walls and ceiling made the floor seem...

Is it a whale with a rock on a white sand beach? Is it a beach and some stones? Or the view out of an aeroplane window? Is it a seasc...

The sasanqua tree in my garden is so tall I had not noticed it flowering but now suddenly my lawn is clothed in white sasanqua blooms. The...

Four coats of white paint and finally the blue bedroom has been transformed ... ... into a white bedroom. In my minds eye I can see the pic...

Ever since I worked in plant breeding I have despaired of humanity's chances of survival. The systems we have created seem to be incapab...

As I was looking at ladders propped up outside the shop, an elderly man stopped and looked with me. "You are looking at ladders,"...

I would much rather be painting canvases than walls (or window frames) but the walls and frames have taken over for the moment. The previous...