Art and Abart

Nature is extraordinary and can keep children occupied for hours and hours. Dug up from the beach and brought home carefully in salt wa...

Painting the pot plants When I paint in public people come and look over my shoulder. I am always surprised how many of them tell me, ...

Warwick Fyfe as Falstaff Warwick Fyfe is an Australian baritone who stepped in at the last moment and sang the part of Alberich at the...

I painted some more nectarines, this time white fleshed fruit. They were in a wooden bowl that my father made.  The fruit had really da...

"This is the real painting," said the nine year old with some amazement, looking at the pop art on the walls of the Art Gallery...

This large visitor to my garden built its web high over the back path last week but the web was not high enough as today I found the spide...

I have always liked painting glassware and the Squirrel painting inspired me to continue with the glass theme . These two 'jug and gla...

My Hibiscus painting  was not painted from the heart, or at least, not from the beginning. Its various iterations have been recorded on ...

I was reminded of Michael Taylor when I put lettering on the Hibiscus painting (last post), because it was he who taught me the technique. M...

before  The Hibiscus painting has started to change (again). The vase was so lonely there on it's green shelf so I added an oil-st...

Glass squirrel 26x 51 cm (10" x 20") Acrylic on Canvas Many years ago I gave my mother a smokey glass squirrel. It sat on he...

View over to the Palm Beach headland, the most northern tip of Sydney. Sppplosh! The turquoise water that turns pale green as it for...

Peaches and glass bowl Acrylic on Canvas 26 x 51 cm (10" x 20")

It is the season to ... contemplate be laid back be laid be  Have a Happy Christmas and may we all be on our perches this ti...

Nectarines Acrylic on canvas 30 x 30 cm Finally the nectarines made it onto canvas and this time they stayed there. The jug and hibisc...

"The smaller the coffin, the heavier it is to carry. It's a very, very tragic day." Defense Minister Khawaja Asif. Such dr...

Sydney-siders have been transfixed this afternoon by the hostage drama at the Lindt chocolate shop in Martin Place. It is extraordinary the ...

Imagine being on a plane for a long haul flight to Sydney, not being able to land there because of debris on the runway, then being dive...

Brian Wood jug The painting of Brian Wood's ceramic jug has gone through many iterations (see two of them below). I tried putting s...

Australia Piano Quartet There is a small concert room at the Sydney Opera House called the Utzon Room. It is well named as it is one of ...