Art and Abart

Freshwater beach Watercolour on Arches paper On Saturday I was at Freshwater Beach on Sydney's north shore where the water was dott...

"Accept the children the way we accept trees--with gratitude, because they are a blessing--but do not have expectations or desires...

Passion fruit flower It is already June but the passion fruit plant in my garden continues to produce flowers and fruit. It is as confus...

Sayo Lipman plays harp Pearl Beach, 8/6/14 The last few months have been very musical for me and I have sketched as I listened. I ha...

Roger Benedict with Viola (and Simon Tedeschi in background) Last night Roger Benedict, Principal Viola with the Sydney Symphony Orche...

Alone, walking up the fire trail from Pearl Beach this morning, I marvel at the colours and the winter stillness. It takes about thirty min...

Stephen Mould on piano, Deborah Humble singing On Wednesday Deborah Humble sang lieder by Brahms, Wagner (Wesendonck Lieder) and a long...

Fancy silver coffee pots, once very popular and now found in antique and op shops, were the basis for these intaglio prints. These were prin...

Coffee pots for my coffee shop. I framed up a couple of intaglio print and ink collaged coffee pots for the wall of my local cafe this wee...

There are heros in Australia as well as creeps (last post) and one of them is the businessman David Gonski.  David Gonski is the gentleman...

Prime Minister Tony Abbott's minders must have had their job cut out making him look like a man you could trust.  After presenting a bud...

Australian budget ructions are gathering speed .... so a bit of musical humour hits the spot. A concert with a difference...

A lot of people marched in Australia today to express their concern at the direction the Abbott Government is leading the country. People tu...

Australia is still in shock after a budget driven by vindictiveness and a pro-coal agenda. No wonder headlines such as this are being se...

He looks such a happy fellow, hair slicked down, walking rather shyly onto the stage, smiling a welcome to the audience. Lukáš Vondráček ...

Woman with teapot (Dunedin Cafe, 2007) This is how I am feeling this morning, over my cup of tea, having just heard the news that the B...

Do these people look like protesting rabble? Well that's who the Government thinks they are. They are the farmers from the Bentley ...

Orchestras and choir at Notre Dame Instead of listening to the 2014 Australian budget being read out by a treasurer who smokes big fat...

Conchita Wurst (from Eurovision TV) So, Conchita Wurst (Spanish/German translation = chick with a dick) has won the Eurovision contest. ...

Cecilia Bartoli Sorely in need of a musical interlude, I am listening to the astonishing voice of Cecilia Bartoli, with the equally asto...