Budiana - Melbourne next step after India

I Ketut Budiana (55), well known painter from Ubud, Bali, will make a one-month visit to Melbourne, Australia, this April. "My visit is at the invitation and sponsorship of Dr Mizes Teven, an anthropologist from LaTrobe University in Melbourne," explained Ketut this Sunday in Bali.

During his stay in Australia, he will paint animals and every things relating to affection. The paintings were expected to be able to support the research on Hinduism, which had been carried out by Dr. Teven, he said.

"Dr Mizes has conducted researches in various places in Bali concerning the teachings of Siva," Budiana said. His works of art, both painted in Bali and which will be painted in Australia, will be displayed in LaTrobe University in Melbourne, Australia.

In addition to painting, he will also give information on the teachings of Siva to the Australian audience. 'Kundalini' a work by Budiana shown below may fit to this as would do other paintings by I Ketut Budiana clearily influenced by his earlier stay in India.

September 2007 - Writers and Readers come to Ubud

The dates for the next Ubud Writers and Readers Festival 2007 have been set to the 27-30 September 2007. The theme this time is Sekala Niskala : The Seen and Unseen.

The Ubud Writers and Readers Festival has itself established as a stand-out, world class event in the Asia Pacific region. The festival attendance in 2006 doubled the year before and festival organisers said feedback from 2006’s event was better than ever. And they continue: 'Of course, all of this would not be possible without the support and enthusiasm of the festival’s many sponsors, scores of volunteers and the community of Ubud'.

We promise to keep you updated, but please mark the last week of September already as 'have to go to Ubud'.

Wolfgang Widmoser - the best painter of Bali?

Ubud presents a new website featuring one of the most gifted artists of Bali: Austrian Wolfgang Widmoser, already a well known painter from Europe to the shores of Australia. His astounding body of work is now featured on www.ubud.com/wolfgangwidmoser.

Praised by many previewers as the best website about a Bali artist, it presents over one hundred of his recent paintings in an easy format featuring flash movies and 'resting' stills for those with slower Internet access.

The website affords insight in the inner workings and inspirations of Wolfgang: Inspired by the people of Ubud, his family and the colourful environment in which he lives, Wolfgang treads into exiting and unknown territories from his recent virtual-reality paintings of Ubud water lilies to female Balinese heads to vibrant abstract reality paintings.

Thanks to Wolfgang the site will help promote Ubud as the art centre of Bali and beyond. We invite other artists, galleries, music and cooking class organisers as well as schools of Ubud to present their work in a similar fashion on our website.