Art and Abart

I feel like the Venetians must in October when all the tourists leave.  Suddenly after the Australia Day long weekend my town is back to nor...

Blueberry bush with heat-dried leaves (left),puddle with umbrella reflection (middle) and wet shoes(right) The leaves of the poor little...

I just came back from a talk by Chris Masters about his new book Uncommon Soldier: The Story of the Making of Today's Diggers . He is a...

Acrylic, 51 x 72 cm Nowadays, even when I don't have a painting project underway I keep an empty canvas on my easel because I have ...

  I have just published Blue Tulips , an autobiographical book about love, music and art.  Love -  music - art,  what more could you poss...

The heat has passed, the damage is done. The vege garden cooked in the record 46C heat today. The  young fresh bean plants are now dried spe...

Holy moly ... we are being cooked alive. 46C in Sydney today I was in Sydney this morning ... it was searingly hot. It reached 46C by 2...

This Sophia, painted last Saturday. Sophia is three years old (and a bit) and as you can see from the painting she has a determined streak. ...

Is it the heat? Suddenly lots of insects have appeared on the back lawn. They look like black-mushroom type growths from afar but up close y...

The New Year has arrived with fuss and fireworks. A happy 2013 to you! During my New Year tidy-up I found this sketch of an art school tut...

Brisbane Waters is nowhere near Brisbane but at my back door, on the Central Coast just north of Sydney in New South Wales. Brisbane Wate...

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...