Art and Abart

Sand Angel This Easter weekend I learned how to make a sand- angel. Here's how:

Yes, rabbits do lay Easter eggs

This morning at 6am I woke to a full moon streaming through the window. Outside, the dawn was just breaking and I took photos looking up and...

The calendar says it is autumn and spiders know it too because despite the summer-like heat they are dancing their autumn dance.  we can...

Pierre-Laurent Aimard is a special sort of pianist, one of those musicians who translate music with their whole body, a phenomenon you so...

Sugar plums (61 x 30.5 cm) I went looking for some paintable fruit last week and found sugar plums.  I love Pflaumentorte (German plum ...

Bottles and pears My January exhibition was time consuming to manage and left me little painting time. Once it was finished I had a rea...

Haveron, Valve and Selby (from their brochure) Music in an intimate atmosphere is what Selby and Friends seem to achieve regardless o...

Honeypot with Flowers 61 x 61 cm (20 x 20 ") Whether a painting is successful has a lot to do with composition and if you get the ...

Pekka Kuusisto plays and directs The lights go down and a young man steps onto the stage. "Hallo, " he says to the audience, ...

Picasso used to re-sign his paintings when he added to them so some of his paintings have several signatures. If I were to follow suit, my p...

Garrick Ohlsson plays Mussorgsky As I write this I am listening to Garrick Ohlsson playing Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition o...

It's Valentines day - appropriate for this photo taken on the beach last night. I wish many lovely sunsets to those exchanging red r...

Peaches, pears and bottles I am on a roll, a fruit roll ... just like this time last year. There is something about summer fruit that is...

Still life with tomatoes 60.5 x 80 cm (24" x 30") There has been a large canvas sitting on my easel for a while, but I hadn...

The Brian Wood ceramic jug has been joined today by some tomatoes and onions. Now it looks a little less lonely. Addendum (19:30) ... ...

Brisbane waters - flat calm in December Summer is meant to be sunny, calm, warm and perfect for the beach but this year we have alternat...

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Phew ... 30 paintings hung in two hours. The Gnostic Manor Cafe has a proper hanging system but a very overworked one, with hooks that a...

' ... hear a little song' 'One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, ...