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Sold from the exhibition, A Journey with Chinese Art, is Jing Liu's absolutely gorgeous watercolour on silk in the claborate style, Glowing Orchid. Eye-catching and quite irresistible. ...

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Sold from the Winter collection 2024, gallery artist, Elena Brambilla's watercolour botanical composition, Acorn with Life Support, Beautifully painted in exquisite detail, art and science now on display for a very happy couple of buyers....

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The geometry of Gaen’s expressive composition, Good Evening,  works well as a representation of Auckland’s variegated topography and indeed as a metaphor for the city’s diaspora. Now sold from the Winter Collection 2014 exhibition the acrylic on board composition  received continuous complimentary commentary from our gallery visitors....

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Toni Kingstone's magical realism compositions typically invoke narratives that are both insightful and challenging. In the case of Wild Horses, now sold, one cannot help but recognize the prospects of leading, following - or lagging far behind. Poignant social commentary indeed. ...

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Gallery artist Maggie B. Sullivan continues to present intriguing, atmospheric compositions that are anchored in astronomic reference points. Her Postcards from Pleiades series offers immersive viewing; in this case inviting, Expectations of Hope.Now on its way to an Italian buyer....

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Cartography is the grand narrative of land. Art also presents breathtaking landscape compositions that help the viewer appreciate and understand the vast expanses upon which civilisation is built.The intersection between art and cartography goes far beyond the notion of design and illustration. Much like the landscape compositions of Rita Angus and Ralph Hotere, map-making contains multiple cultural and social reference points that together create distinct identities; an art form that enables on...

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Quite clearly, gallery artist Kirsten McIntosh is not able to keep her birds from flying away. Now, her composition Echoes of the Kokako has left the gallery, possibly in search of its Tui friend that took to wing not a week ago....

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Kirsten McIntosh's dark immersive composition, Tui's Song has quickly found favor with a local collector. After a short few days in the gallery this Tui has taken flight to a new home....

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Gallery artist Kirsten McIntosh continues to attract buyers for her sumptuous autumnal  compositions. Sunset Serenade, Rome has only been in the gallery 48 hours, now destined to be relocated. The Romans should be alerted…...

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Gallery artist Hong Cumming continues to attract buyers for her wonderful watercolour compositions. In this case, Te Koutu Domain Cambridge is moving to a new geographical location. Someone should tell the locals…...

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Utterly exquisite. Dawn's Embrace, sold from the Winter Collection 2024, gallery artist, Bernadette Ballantyne's floral composition in soft pastel. More than admired, merely astonished at the artistry and beauty, captured in this special work of art....

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Chris Greenslade has amassed a loyal following for his watercolour style that tends to lead to his work being sold. In this case his Street Talking Priests from the Street Stories exhibition has taken favour with a collector who now has two pieces from this gallery artist....

Extensive coverage of the gallery activities in the Waikato Times

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Gallery artist, Kirsten McIntosh continues to attract buyers. From the Winter Collection 2024, her beautiful oil composition, Whispers of Winter Bloom has been a gallery favourite with many interested viewers. Now sold to a collector, new to the gallery....

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Gallery artist Miranda Caird who is also represented by Fine Art Society, New Zealand , presents a deeply immersive impressionist acrylic composition, Caught in the Headlights II that has now been bought by a new local collector. A proud owner. Quite right too....

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NZ Poppies by gallery artist, Kirsten McIntosh has found a new home;  a Waikato collector who much appreciated the vibrancy of this attractive oil on board composition....

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Having sold five compositions in the gallery that featured the Murray River in Australia, gallery artist, Julie Mello now turns her attention to New Zealand real estate, selling to a local collector, this delightful oil painting, entitled Te Pahu's Pirongia. A gallery favourite, this compelling art work will now see Pirongia mountain moved to a new location....

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Brideshead Revisited by novellist Evelyn WaughPresented by artist, Debra ThompsonBrideshead Revisited was a novel by the English writer Evelyn Waugh, first published in 1945. It follows, from the 1920s to the early 1940s, the life and romances of Charles Ryder, especially his friendship with the Flytes, a family of wealthy English Catholics who live in a palatial mansion, Brideshead Castle. Ryder has relationships with two of the Flytes: Lord Sebastian and Lady Julia. The novel explore...

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Dusky is a powerful expressionist composition of Christchurch, by new gallery artists Gaen, sold from the Welcome Swallow Gallery, Winter Collection 2024. ...

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Expressive abstract art has the advantage of being able to provide the viewer with a sense of movement, anticipation and interpretation. So goes the sale of Juliet Roper’s Inside Looking Out I, that envisages a tree canopy obscuring the visage of sea and sky while leaves, branches and birds criss-cross the unstable field of vision....

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The Welcome Swallow Gallery represents the Fine Art Society of New Zealand, thus enabling the gallery to access the back catalogues of established New Zealand artists. This fine painting by Aston Greathead (1921-2012), Mount Sefton in Autumn, retains a dream-liked quality, made possible by the artist’s use of only 4 colours, a novel method for post-impressionist works from the 1950s. A wonderful example of New Zealand art history....

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The Welcome Swallow Gallery represents the Fine Art Society of New Zealand, thus enabling the gallery to access the back catalogues of established New Zealand artists. This fine painting by Aston Greathead (1921-2012), Old Road to Mt. Cook, Aorangi is a beautiful watercolour resplendent of the manner in which artists in the 1950s and 1960s depicted New Zealand landscapes....

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Morning Frost at Queenstown is a superb  painting by Chris Greenslade, gallery artist and winner of New Zealand’s watercolour painting of the year in 2023. Greenslade uses a masterful watercolour technique that combines intricate detail with a panoramic landscape grand narrative....

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Sold from the Botanica exhibition, Janet Marshall's Karamu is a superb ink an wash illustration of plant life-cycle that underpins the value and beauty of botanical art. ...

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As the artist for several New Zealand stamps, Janet Marshall's botanical compositions have graced the gallery to much admiration. On this occasion, her Coprosma Robusta watercolour is off to be planted in a new artistic garden....