Art and Abart

Boxing Day. The day to wake up late, snooze on the sofa, recover from the rigors of the day before, dream about the days to come.

Seasons Greetings! A bit of whimsy make you smile in this, our turbulent 2011/12.

My big old English Oak (no longer available according to the repairman) table was damaged on the way across the Tasman and was so wonky I wa...

Today I saw Philip Glass's opera Satyagraha about Gandi's life in South Africa, the latest of the New York Metropolitan Opera produc...

I saw the moon eclipse last night. The moon was reddish as predicted and very eerie. It was unearthly in a strange way and I am glad I woke ...

There is something charming about ceramics that is hard to put your finger on. Is it because we know they are made from clay, or is it the c...

In March when I painted the peeling window frames I took off the fly screens and put them in the garage to paint later.  I found them again...

If you need a little pre-Christmas cheer you should come to my house at dusk. You can't help but be impressed by the lights on the house...

I love Sydney and as I sort through my Sydney paintings  I find I have a lot of the Sydney Opera House, a building which has an aura about i...

At last, 7 months after moving, I am screwing together my Ikea shelf. It is probably the tenth time this shelf has been dismantled then reas...

Last Tuesday I joined my local 'paint out' group despite cloudy skies as it was the first Tuesday since I moved here that I have had...

Ducks are some of my favorite creatures. Their body construction makes it almost impossible for them to hurt anyone (try pecking with a duck...

In among the Agapanthas and palm trees sits my largest ceramic piece: Homage to the Music of Richard Wagner What people have said about W...

A little bit of fun from the ceramics workshop. These dancers .... now dance on the old BBQ in the garden.

The knob on my coffee machine got so tight it now needs a spanner to turn it. The place I bought the machine has closed down so I rang the m...

Is a barfridge big enough? My experiement started yesterday when I bought a bar fridge from Aldi. Everything that was in the old 1978 brumm...

My experience is that it takes time to evaluate your own works of art. Some paintings I've liked on completion remain my favorites, ot...

Richard Mill's (pic below) opera The Love of the Nightingale was well worth going to the opera to see. It re-told a Greek myth, was very...

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 ...