Art and Abart

Yaay! I got my copy of Blue Tulips: A Love Story in the mail today! It is looking good ... quite a hefty tome at 430 pages. Blue Tuli...

Wagner's Music as Love Potion? Blue Tulips: A Love Story is a book that demonstrates how potent this love potion can be. Blue Tu...

One would not normally compare a chamber orchestra with an opera company, but I happened to see the Australian Chamber Orchestra and an Oper...

You think you have outwitted the cockatoo, but then he shows you otherwise. Y

Pears, Nectarines, Frangipani Acrylic on Canvas 30 x 40cm In summer at least two pictures of fruit and flowers seem to paint themselves....

My pears and Frangipani picture has been undergoing a transformation. Five year old Sophia said the pears look as if they are made of pla...

December January I planted some sunflowers in front of the garage as a 'Blickfang' (eye-catcher) this spring and they have g...

It has been a tumultuous year and we are confronted with a new world.  Reading online comments sections that follow political posts wou...

Pears and Frangipani Acrylic on Canvas, 30 x 40 cm Warmth, summer fruit and flowers, a general relaxed feeling - they all conspire to ma...

Ferry with sheep The Museum of Old and New Art (Mona) in Hobart is a Museum you don't easily forget. I was there two weeks ago but i...

Hobart seems to be full of small businesses run by very friendly people. I just had a beer at a nearby corner pub. It's called The Duk...

Who's looking at me then? Tempest , the show on at the Hobart Museum and Art Gallery seems to encapsulate Tasmania, sitting as it d...

The local paper on Friday It is not so often that an audience rises as one to cheer and applaud at the end of a concert, but in Hoba...

Sunrise 3 Once the sun is up, if I look north over the ocean I might just see the Ring of Stee l that our Government is promoting t...

Sunrise in a warming world We are going to have to get clever and coordinated to save our world, working together as never before to s...

Sunrise What do you do when the world goes crazy? My twitter feed is full of reports of nasty racst incidents in the USA and of articles...

Hillary Clinton won the popular vote! Al Gore won the popular vote but not the Presidency. Just think for a minute how different our world m...

"Artists are there when the world forgets what is important!" These were the words of soprano Soprano Ayse Goknur Shanal followi...

The pub opposite Angel Place Hall Angel Place Looking upwards Photos of New York often seem to me rather mag...

Nelson Freire plays You have to be pretty good to be touring internationally at 72 years old and pianist Nelson Freire is definitely pre...