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Gallery artist, Martin Necas invites the viewer into his impressionist compositions thus creating endless storylines. Such is the case with the painting, The Calm Before the Storm that has been bought as a special retirement gift....
October 29, 2025SOLD!
Gallery artist, Cole Raithby has recently turned to watercolour painting, producing a van Gogh-like composition entitled River Flow. Snapped up on day one in the gallery. No surprise....
October 26, 2025SOLD!
Artist Charlotte Giblin continues to sell her work at the Welcome Swallow Gallery. The fine acrylic on canvas composition, entitled A Short Pause in the Orange Tree, has now flown to a new location....
October 25, 2025SOLD!
The Garden Party Begins here, a watercolour composition by Rebecca Dowman-Ngapo has been sold from the Design is Everything exhibition. The purchasers are avid collectors of the artist's work.In this watercolour, Katherine Mansfield stands before her childhood home, surrounded by the roses that so often bloomed in her stories. The painting imagines the house not just as a setting, but as a seed, the place from which The Garden Party and so many of her vivid worlds first took root. This...
October 25, 2025SOLD!
Potter and ceramicist, Vaughan Norman produces remarkable objet d'art, such as this large Dragon Fly that uses tension in its legs to cling to walls at any chosen angle. Much like the 'real thing'... Once seen......
October 24, 2025SOLD!
Sold from the Design is Everything exhibition is Sandra Turner-Barlow's composition, Chiesa di San Bonaventura. The buyer was excited to see the painting as she was familiar with the stucture and it's distinctive design.The church was built in 1675 for Cardinal Francesco Barberini and is dedicated to St Bonaventura de Bagnoreggio (1221-1275). It stands on Palatine Hill in Rome and is built on the site of a castellum or terminus of a branch of the Claudian Aqueduct. This acrylic composition indic...
October 24, 2025SOLD!
Gallery artist Hong Cumming has sold a second painting from the Design is Everything exhibition. The Old Hong Kong kitchen has sold to an art afficionado who appreciated the texture and flow of the structure's facade. The Old Hong Kong Kitchen, is more than just an old building, it carries Raglan’s childhood memories — a place where kids crowded around the old Space Invaders machines, shared hot chips and milkshakes, and then wandered down to the beach. The painting captures not only the cha...
October 23, 2025SOLD!
Sold from the Design is Everything exhibtion, is the composition in ink and watercolour from gallery artists Michele Rumney, entitled, Substratum HV.Celebrating 120 years in 2025, I am drawn to the complexities of the Harbour View Hotel, Raglan, as a symbol of standing through time, as a foundation of the community through wind swept lonely winters, and through bustling summers brimming with the influx of holiday makers. The Harbour View Hotel has consistently hosted as venue myriad of mus...
October 17, 2025SOLD!
Sold from the exhibition, Design is Everything is Rebecca Dowman-Ngapo’s strong watercolour composition entitled, The Dream Builder.In this watercolour painting, Friedensreich Hundertwasser stands before the gallery that embodies his vision, a harmony of colour, curve, and ecology. The building itself seems to grow from the earth, echoing his belief that architecture should breathe with life and nature. Painting him here is an homage to a creator whose art, design, and environmental ...
October 17, 2025SOLD!
Sold on opening night - Hong Cumming's watercolour composition, The Glow, from the exhibition Design is Everything. For this painting there were many suitors. Just one buyer, a local art connoisseur.This painting of the Waikato Regional Theatre is all from my imagination, but it’s how I picture it — glowing on a rainy night, people gathering under umbrellas, ready for a show. I call it The Glow because the theatre will be such a bright spot for Hamilton, a great way to kick off Wa...
October 17, 2025SOLD!
Juliet Roper’s acrylic composition, Bauhaus Masters’ Houses from the Design is Everything exhibition has sold to a local collector.Founded in Germany in 1919 by Walter Gropius, the Bauhaus philosophy that ‘form follows function’ was, at the time, considered revolutionary. It attracted influential artists and designers internationally, with several becoming teachers, or ‘Masters’, at the Bauhaus School of Art, Design and Architecture, while living in the custom built ‘Mastersâ...
October 17, 2025SOLD!
Resting Man is a Picasso pastiche by gallery artist, Jimmy Chang that echoes Picasso’s early cubist period with compositions such as Seated Nude Man, 1908. In Chang’s composition the deep internal reflexivity remains whereas the cubist structures have been largely softened towards angular lines that predate Tamara de Lempicka’s art deco inspired figures that emerged some twenty years later. Chang’s composition carries inner strength while escaping any attempt to establish coherent figur...
October 9, 2025SOLD!
Sold from The Grand Tour exhibition, Brutta Matta's Parisienne Promenade du Dimanche. Brutta Matta started painting instinctively , resulting in a unique and vibrant style. The artist unveils his world where light and colour intertwine to capture the emotion of the moment. Inspired by the great masters and influenced by Impressionism, he translates nature into an explosion of sensations, where each canvas becomes an immersion in a felt landscape....
October 4, 2025SOLD!
Gilian Hamilton's graphite composition, Solitude, captures a sense check for the world to ponder. Her work is recongized globally.Gilian Hamilton is certainly a very talented draughtsman; this is especially evident in her graphite drawings that are stunning in their texture and depth with more than a resemblance to Caravaggio’s early drawings. Her pastel still lifes too are beautifully drawn, similar to those of Hockney and her figure studies are particularly strong and visually very appealin...
October 1, 2025SOLD!
Watercolourist and gallery artist, Chris Greenslade's wonderful serene redition of Avignon, admired by many and now sold....
September 27, 2025SOLD!
Sold from The Grand Tour exhibition to a Dunedin collector, a blustery painting entitled , A Fresh Northerly by artist James Webb. He was born in London in 1825 into an artistic family. James’ father was Archibald Webb (1792-1883), marine and coastal painter. Webb exhibited at the Royal Academy, Society of British Artists and elsewhere from 1846 to 1866. Inspired by the romantic styles of Constable and Turner, he used pale colours to bring a soft atmosphere to his marine landscapes. Galle...
September 10, 2025SOLD!
New artist to the Welcome Swallow Gallery, Jimmy Chang presents an evocative figurative composition entitled, Yellow Window, a pastiche on Rembrandt's 1630 painting, A Man in a Room. Like Rembrandt, Chang uses shards of light to accent the figurative study. Now sold from the Winter Collection 2025....
September 4, 2025SOLD!
Sold from The Grand Tour exhibition, Venetian Canal with Gondola, is a vivid view of Venezia by artist Raimondo Roberti. He was born on May 31, 1947, in post-World War II Naples, Italy. Some members of his family, who were high ranking military officers of the Royal Fleet, strongly influenced Roberti and his lifelong attraction to all things pertaining to the sea. His family’s isolated villa was very near the grounds of Ciacinto Gigante, who was one of the foremost exponents o...
August 30, 2025SOLD!
Sold from The Grand Tour exhibition is a beautiful pastel entitled, Sunset, Venice from artist C,H. Pellettier.Charles Pellettier was born in Britian of French descent and lived most of his life after the second World War living and working in Europe, where he became a full-time artist. His work initially focused on the French seaside specifically in the region of Etretat. He also travelled frequently to Istanbul where the vibrant city streets inspired a great number of artworks. It is his ...
August 30, 2025SOLD!
Sold from The Grand Tour that has apparently stopped in Paris to witness the selling of Brutta Matta’s composition, Pont du Carrousel, Paris.Brutta Matta is a self-taught outdoor painter who is known for his spontaneous painting style with shimmering colours. He started painting instinctively, resulting in a unique and vibrant style. The artist unveils his world where light and colour intertwine to capture the emotion of the moment. Inspired by the great masters and influenced by Impressi...
August 30, 2025SOLD!
Women Fishing, a serene ink and charcoal composition from gallery artist Michele Rumney, has been extracted from ther Winter Collection 2025 and now on its way to a new home. A great catch. ...
August 29, 2025SOLD!
The Parisienne Flower Seller from The Grand Tour exhibition by French artist Georges Tournon, has been sold. Georges Tournon was the eldest son of the painter, publicist and illustrator Raymond Tournon and the portrait painter Éléonore Marche.Georges joined the School of Fine Arts in Paris but remained only a short time. He became a theatre decorator in 1918 and lost his father the following year to the Spanish flu in Villefranche-sur-Mer. In the Montparnasse distric...
August 23, 2025SOLD!
Sold from The Grand Tour exhibition, the equisite watercolour, The Village Pond, Northamptonshire by Sir Alfred East who was born in Kettering and studied at the Glasgow School of Art. His romantic landscapes show the influence of the Barbizon school. He published, The Art of Landscape Painting in Oil Colour in 1906. In April 1888 he shared an exhibition at the galleries of the Fine Art Society with T. C. Gotch and W. Ayerst Ingram, and was commissioned the followin...
August 17, 2025SOLD!
Sold from The Grand Tour exhibition, Rouen Cathedral by Thomas Cane who was born Brighton, England in 1830. He trained as an architect under Gilbert Scott. On arriving in Christchurch in 1874 he was given the position of Canterbury Provincial Architect which he held until the abolition of Provinces in 1876. Cane made his name as a leading Christchurch architect. Among buildings he designed were Corfe House at Christ’s College and Christchurch Girls’ High School...
August 17, 2025SOLD!
Sold from The Grand Tour exhibition is a beautiful watercolour by Giovanni Bonazzon who attended Art School in Venice and then continued his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts, where he began his artistic career. He received the teachings of some of the great names in Italian contemporary art. In 1974 he qualified summa cum laude and is now professor of drawing and painting.After a period of technical experimentation, his artistic research centres particularl...
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