Art and Abart

Tomorrow, Tuesday, I am looking forward to seeing Richard Mills conducting his own opera The Love of the Nightingale at the Sydney Opera Ho...

My long term project is to transform my front garden into a more useful space and today at the Woytopia Festival I joined the initiative to ...

Hot weather equals fishing-from-wharf weather. Yesterday was over 30C and this couple were sitting right on the end of the wharf to fish. Ju...

Last night I watched the NZ vs France Rugby World Cup final in a small local NSW pub, one of a group of four NZ supporters organised by an E...

Classes have finished for the year and I am  looking forward to some down-time. My last class was life drawing: One minute sketches drawn...

In 2006 just before I left to study in NZ I bought a mobile phone, a Nokia, the simplest I could find at the time. It has just carked it ......

Back in Australia the  newspapers are predicting the melting of Australia's snow fields if climate change progresses as predicted but......

Back to reality ... ... and back on a on the early morning train to Sydney. If you close your eyes it feels as if you are whipping along ju...

After several trips to the hardware store and lots of reading of the backs of packets of screws I have my first picture rail up and my first...

I bought a stud finder yesterday and planned to put up my gallery system today but it is not as simple as one might imagine. In the dining r...

How nice to be home ... ... and (finally) recovered from jetlag.

My Maribor Musician paintings , or most of them, are now online at artsmitten.com .

This morning when I woke my watch said 6am - 11 hours sleep. I got up, showered, ate breakfast, answered some email then looked at my watch ...

It is 5:18 on the day after a long haul flight. I am struggling to keep my eyes open even though I slept 11 hours last night.

Note to self:  If you have a late night long haul flight: #1 don't drink a strong coffee the afternoon before and #2 don't drink a...

Neckargemuend is an old and picturesque village on the Neckar River. From there you can see Bergfeste Dilsberg on the hill further along the...

Imagine trying to make these yourself!

The Tchibo coffee shop in Hamburg-Rissen looks out over one of the prettiest buildings in the village, this thatched roof house. Today I sa...

I have an exhibition of work at Gino's Cafe in Rissen. This is one of the watercolours I have on the wall.

This cafe in Uetersen is one of the prettiest I have seen and ...when they bring your tea, they include a small wooden timer, so you know ho...