Art and Abart

Christmas is over? Time to go home?

Christmas? So soon?

When I was growing up teasing was seen as a way to toughen up children to prepare them for life. It was only later when I was living in Euro...

When I was in Slovenia in September the economic downturn was biting and an art dealer told me that everyone would prefer to live in Austral...

Sydney Opera House (left) and Harbour Bridge at midnight Yesterday was very windy but by midnight when the host of a Christmas party I a...

My laptop died. It was bought in 2007 so some people would say it was old .... but not me. In the interim I have been using my travel EeePC....

I made a card from a recent painting of the Brisbane Waters. Not that anyone buys cards any more because postage has become so exorbitant it...

 I have just found a couple of little sketches I made in 1981 in Port Navalo in France. We spent a very happy family holiday there. ...

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...