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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. ...

Christmas and New Year Hours

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Hong Cumming's paintings do not stay long in the gallery these days. Bought as a special gift for a 50th birthday, is her splendid watercolour, Waihi Beach that will no doubt be received with great delight!...

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From the Winter Collection 2023 exhibition, Kirsten McIntosh's majestic Symphony of Light, has been admired by many visitors to the gallery, now bought to take pride of place in a local art collection....

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Sold from the Drawn from Life exhibition, Ron Stenberg's, exquisitely drawn, The Bridge Workers is now in the possession of a local art collector. Ron Stenberg had a long and distinguished career as an artist, teacher and illustrator. Born in Auckland in July 1919, Stenberg initially studied painting as a young teenager in the early 1930’s. After art school he worked as an illustrator and later in advertising.Stenberg established himself as an artist in New Zealand through exhibiting...

The Festive season: art and gifts

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Yasmin Davis presents her 2023 Ceramic Koru

A gallery favourite, especially at this  time of year when people are looking for unique Christmas gifts that are original pieces of art. Each year Yasmin Davis presents new themes and subjects in her watercolour ceramics that are integrated into a dynamic Koru. It is indeed, visually spectacular!...

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Rebecca Dowman-Ngapo's stunning composition, From Garden to Place that sold on the  opening night of the exhibition, The Five Studies, features no less than 8 historical paintings of Garden Place in Hamilton, in vertical scroll like dimensions. A veritable artful taxonomy like none seen before. Breathtaking details that pace local social history....

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From The Five Studies exhibition, these two pieces have been inspired by the Spanish composer Enrique Granados, whose piano work is entitled "sketches" and specifically a work called "The Evening Bell". The two images, now sold, capture the mood of what Granados had 'sketched' in music. They are both from the area in Spain, Torrelodones, north west of Madrid.There are two ideas of the bells in Spanish culture, one grand the other intimate. Grand bells are typically used for important announcemen...

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From The Five Studies exhibition, these two pieces (see next post) have been inspired by the Spanish composer Enrique Granados, whose piano work is entitled "sketches" and specifically a work called The Evening Bell. The two images, now sold, capture the mood of what Granados had 'sketched' in music. They are both from the area in Spain, Tor There are two ideas of the bells in Spanish culture, one grand the other intimate. Grand bells are typically used for important announcements, while smaller...

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Sapper Horace Moore-Jones led a remarkable life. He was a Gallipoli First World War artist, map maker and local hero who died while saving the lives of others in the tragic 1922 Hamilton Hotel fire. After the war he exhibited his work in the UK and in particular at Buckingham Palace. Upon return, his tours of New Zealand, to raise money for returning soldiers, brought out thousands of people who wanted to hear and see the stories that Moore-Jones told. He was famous as the artist for the much-lo...