Art and Abart

When you cross over the wide Salzach river at Salzburg you know you are in Austria because your phone beeps and tells you welcome to Austria...

The elderly Russian receptionist at the Grafik Elephant recommended a restaurant across the road but when I asked if he had eaten there an...

I had time before my train to Graz to go for a walk in Munich. Window displays in Germany are always professional and interesting to look at...

The journey between Hamburg and Graz takes over 13 hours so it helps to have pleasant company. I had a delightful child drawing pictures opp...

Matjes Herring is one of my favourite foods and the closer to the sea you get in Germany, the fresher the herrings. This was my meal at a H...

Hamburg shops are full of new winter wares, like these boots... even though the country is in the grip of a heat wave (30C today in Hamburg...

The Hamburg Rathaus (town hall) sits on one side of the town square, on the other side is a coffee shop where you can sit, watch people go b...

You forget how green green can be when you live in Australia. You remember again when you visit Germany.

Seven and a half flying hours from Sydney to Singapore, 12 hours from Singapore to Frankfurt, five hours by train from Frankfurt airport to ...

The Camellias in the garden are so tall that I don't see the flowers until they drop from above.

Old Victa Twostroke and I just mowed the lawn; a hot job even on a cool day like today. He has repaired exhausted to the garage and I am hav...

Act 1 of Richard Strauss's opera Capriccio which I saw at the Sydney Opera House on 27 July. It was a discussion about the relative meri...

White Music is a piece made from ceramic and wood. Detail of White Music The pieces in a collaged work like this often have diverse origins...

A farmhouse window: picturesque and speaks volumes.

View over winter hills near Cooma in NSW. There was a sprinkling of snow on surrounding hills when I was there last weekend and painting out...

There has been good rain this year in NSW and the rolling hills between Cooma and Berridale (south of Canberra in NSW) are covered in long g...

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...