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Gallery artisty, Cole Raithby continues to thrill his audiences. Dreams in Violet, sold to an important NZ collector. The artist explains the composition below.“Dreams in violet.” portrays a singular tree that works its way up the composition and out of frame. The twisting branches suggest a long history with all the environmental factors it had to face throughout its life.In a way, I feel all trees have this intimate quality about them where the viewer can imagine how the tree came to the s...

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Italian master and gallery artist, Giovanni Bonazzon has attracted many buyers for his Venetian compositions, the most recent being this  splendid Ink and Sepia, Gondolas at Rest, Venice. from the showcase exnhibition, The Old world Meets the New......

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Sold from the Showcase, The Old World Meets the New... is another beautiful Venetian Scene aquatint from gallery artist Giovanni Bonazzon....

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Cole Raithby's Van Gogh pastiche, Derealization is a stunning oil composition that has brought people to the gallery to view and admire. Now sold to a Christchurch collector. Raithby's personal commentary follows. Derealization is a deeply personal piece rooted in my experience with depersonalization-derealization disorder.Derealization is the feeling that your surroundings are unreal, dreamlike or distorted, while depersonalization is the feeling of being detached from one's self, and/or t...

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Sold from the Showcase, The Old World Meets the New... is the delicate ink and watercolour painting from gallery artist Giovanni Bonazzon, entitled St Mark's Square from the Grand Canal. ...

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Julie Mello's vibrant post impressionist composition, Shadows on the Wairoa River  from the Pepper exhibition has sold to a long-time admirer of the artist's work....

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The Rialto Bridge is a delicately painted watercolour by gallery Italian artist Giovanni Bonazzon, sold from the highly successful showcase The Old World Meets the New... Sold to a local collector, to anchor many memories of Venetian visits....

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Sold from the Pepper exhibition is Arrowtown II by gallery artist, Gavin Smith. This watercolour follows the artist's post-impressionist brush, a light touch that brings the drama of the subject matter firmly to the fore....

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Sold from the exhibition, Design is Everything, is Chris Greenslade’s  beautiful watercolour composition, Portofino.Portofino nestles into a small alcove near the Italian port of Genoa. Typical of the Italian Riviera, high elevations surround the mediterranean  ‘vernacular’ style dwellings that include what is known as trompe-l'oeil, small ornamental arrangements that distinguish one structure from another. This painting is more subdued in colour and atmosphere than its subject. ...

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The exhibition, The Old World Meets the New... continues to attract motivated buyers. Aston Greathead's art is greatly admired with three of his composition selling in quick succession (see below). His renditions of the South Island resonate powerfully for those with personal narratives that are associated with his subjects. ...

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The Showcase, The Old World Meets the New... has quickly atracted buyers. Aston Greathead's Mount Cook and Walter Peak have found new homes in the Waikato....

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The Forgotten Workhorse, from the Winter Collection 2025 exhibition, is a wonderfful watercolour composition by gallery artist Rebecca Dowman-Ngapo and has sold, appropriately, to a farming family, entranced by the narrative of this classic New Zealand vista....

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Hong Cumming's magnificent waterccolour composition, The Golden Passage has been sold from the latest gallery exhibition, Design is Everything.Note from the artist:  I painted this after many years of living away from home, and as I get older, I find myself more and more drawn back to my own culture. The autumn light spilling across this imperial gateway feels like a symbol of memory and rediscovery for me — how distance can actually make your roots feel even stronger. As an immigrant, th...

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Chris Greenslade's watercolour composition, Monastery of Montserrat, from the Design in Everything exhibition, has attracted great admiration; now sold and on it's way to a new Waikato location.Culture, religion and history intertwine in the stunning Monastery of Montserrat located high on the Montserrat Mountain in Catalonia where mountain shepherds have told many legends of the appearance of  the Virgin of Montserrat. The stunning museum gallery that displays works by masters such as...

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The Design is Everything exhibition carries a range of design imperatives, some that challenge aesthetics as well as form and purpose. Just such a composition is Juliet Roper's, Design Decline that features a rather dilapidated warhouse wall. Charm and beauty can occur even when designs appear to be entering their final phase of life and purpose. A combination of the artist's eye and the buyers preference coincide....

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Hong Cumming continues to attract buyers for her outstanding art. On this ocassion, selling from the Still Slices of Life Exhibition is her oil splended composition, First Light of the Morning. Glass is terribly hard to paint. Enough said....

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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....

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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....

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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....

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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...

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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......

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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...

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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...

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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...