Art and Abart

Sydney Opera House This is where I have been for the past three days - and late into the night. The Sydney Opera House is a wonderful pl...

Photographing chickens is worse than painting cats .... they move faster thqn you can click the button.

While I was making Wagner cards, I also made a Christmas Card! Laughing Kookaburra Christmas Card by elizabethgw

Next year is Richard Wagner's 200th birthday and I have been working on some Wagner-related art for a 2013 exhibition. I also made some ...

It took a little while but at last my paintings of the 2012 Maribor Music Festival are online. See them at artsmitten.com Thomas Demenga...

If you paint a portrait of someone they become part of your life. I have pictures of several of my portrait candidates hanging in my studio ...

Not many parts of historic Sydney have managed to save themselves from the wreckers ball but one small gem that remains is the historic whar...

It is raining hard here but in bright sunshine, so we must be right at the bottom of the rainbow. Now where is that pot of gold? Bright s...

Hooray, the Kookaburras are back! They sit in the big gum tree next to my bedroom and laugh before the first rays of dawn peep over the ho...

Tuesday's Central Coast Art Group 'paint out' was at Empire Bay where the only shade was at the table fishers use to gut thei...

I went to a 'paint out' with a local art group this morning but instead of the usual 10-15 participants only one other person was th...

Jim Cooper has just won the Portage Prize, the premier ceramics prize in New Zealand. Congratulations Jim! Jim Cooper (photo from the Ota...

Watching the East Coast of America with bated breath. So where are the US election voices talking about climate change?

In August shortly before leaving home for 5 weeks I created a no-dig garden (newspaper laid on the grass covered by some compost and blood a...

What is it about fresh flowers that is so captivating? Some artificial flowers are so realistic nowadays that you have to touch them to see ...

The handle of the bedroom door fell off soon after I moved into this house nearly two years ago and I have been meaning to get new handles e...

My computer died two months ago, not sudden death but in stages. The first warning that something was seriously wrong was the 'blue scre...

Run, jump, chase the seagulls, splash. There is nothing quite like the beach.

On 11 November the NSW Wagner Society is having a Christmas party at the Mosman Art Gallery and their poster features a sketch of Lisa Harpe...

In Umina at Ruby's Cafe and Books . Good coffee, lots of books (you can read them there or take them with you) and engaging staff. A go...