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Celebrating our Volunteers

Out on the back deck, Lots of tempting food. Outdoor music, funish'd and burnish'd in the hot and hazy afternoon sun, frustratingly missing; Miss Joan Hunter Dunn......

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Sold from the Devotion to Form exhibition, Sylvia Sinel's very striking duel pieces, My Body is a Temple....

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While Sylvia Sinel held an informal conversation regarding her dedication and Devotion to Form, two sculptural pieces (seen below) were quietly acquired....

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Chinese calligraphy is a fundamental component of the new exhibition, A Journey with Chinese Art. The Welcome Swallow Gallery is proud to present Yu Ting Li's calligraphy that anchors the cultural canons of Chinese history. Sold today is a spectacular rendition of The Heart Sutra, based on 600 year old Chinese sanskrits. The Sutra philosophy offers a personal journey towards wisdom and true compassion. The artistic form that is embedded in a semi-circle requires mathematical precision as well as...

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Orchid, sold from the recently launched exhibition, A Journey With Chinese Art, is the most delicate watercolour on silk composition that is indicative of the Jing Liu's outstanding artistry....

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Italian gallery artist Elena Brambilla, noted for her botanical artistry skills also demonstrates aquatic mastery with her large watercolour, King Fish, now sold and shortly to swim towards a new residence in Auckland....

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A couple rightly entranced by the presence of Lesley Lawson (Twiggy) and Audrey Hepburn, who between them, in very different ways, defined 60s shades of elegance and chic to the max, made the only choice open to them and that was to buy them both. So they did....

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Arriving from the Chinese mainland an hour before the opening of the exhibition, A Journey with Chinese Art,  this incredible scroll by Yong Ming Liu, immediately found favour with a buyer who recognised the pedigree of this classical Chinese composition....

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Sold on opening night from the exhibition, A Journey with Chinese Art, is Jing Liu’s mystical watercolour composition, Viewing Mountains and Fog....

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Sold on opening night of the exhibition, A Journey with Chinese Art, is the watercolour composition White-eye and Loquat by gallery artist Jing Liu...

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This simply stunning Chinese scroll, watercolour on Chinese rice paper, sold on opening night of the exhibition, A Journey With Chinese Art, by mainland artist Yong Ming Liu. Should you be in range this composition alone is worth a trip to the gallery....

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This lovely, delightful, watercolour by gallery artist Hong Cumming indicates that the real estate market is improving for both buyers and sellers with the gallery acting as an agent dedicated to ‘market clearing’....

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Another superb sculpture, Abstraction - Kingfisher has been sold from the Devotion to Form exhibition by Sylvia Sinel at the Welcome Swallow, City Gallery. The emerging pattern is selling. ...

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Sold on preview day, Kingfisher is a beautiful watercolour from the exhibition, A Journey with Chinese Art, by gallery artist, Jing Liu....

Waikato Times media coverage for new Chinese exhibition, A Journey With Chinese Art

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On this, only the second day of a two month exhibition. A Devotion to Form at the City Gallery on Ward. this fine sculpture, Abstraction has been sold to a local collector. ...

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Goldfinch, from the distinctive exquisite watercolour brushes of gallery Italian artist, Elena Brambilla, now sold. The strong firm poise belies the fact that this putative 'red head' is about to fly to another perch. As we always say these days, 'fly safe'....

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Sold from the Winter Collection 2023, is Juliet Roper's. seemingly abstract composition, A Traveller's Tale. This was one of the gallery's 'expressive abstract' pieces wherein close inspection reveals several forms, objects and themes that together present a detailed exposition of the moving parts to a journey undertaken. In this case by an unknown traveller. It could be ourselves, thus enabling the viewer to see themselves in the story that emerges from the painting....

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This beautiful most atmospheric impressionist work, Whangamarino River from watercolourist, Bernadette Parsons has been sold from the Waikato Watercolourist's III exhibition....

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Gallery artist Maggie B. Sullivan continues to sell her dramatic, colourful abstract compositions. Indian Summer has now come early for a buyer who expressed a deep connection with the intensity of the painting. ...

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From the exhibition, The Five Studies, Rebecca Dowman-Ngapo has sold her second Garden Place watercolour composition, Permaculture, Parking, Place. This important painting  presents a taxonomy of seven historical versions of Garden Place that cleverly  intersect for the viewer to unravel and enjoy. ...

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Sold on the first opening day after Christmas, Sandra Turner-Barlow's Touch II, a very very vibrant Watercolour that excites, at least, the imagination. ...

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From the exhibition, Our Times, Martin Necas, presented a vibrant watercolour of Hamilton's Garden Place, entitled Time to Return, now sold to an Australian collector, bound for Melbourne....

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Stop Press: Romance is not dead. Gallery artist Kirsten McIntosh's vibrant NZ Roses sold today to a newly engaged couple (as of yesterday), who will eventually relocate to Canada with the painting serving as a life long reminder of their love, forged in Aotearoa. ...

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Sold to two different buyers with strong connections to Australia, are two of Julie Mello's rich impressionist compositions, Flooding Darling River and Brighter Days, now meandering their way to new estuaries. ...