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Sold from the Flower Power Showcase is Bernadette Ballantyne’s beautiful pastel composition, Waiting for Summer....

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Sold from the exhibition Kiwi Life: Past and Present, Ron Stenberg’s Ink and Wash composition, Executive Stress certainly takes us back to an era of landlines, cigarettes and masculine models of success, power and confidence....

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For several years Aston Greathead’s work has been greatly favoured by gallery clients, selling quickly once displayed. In this case, his Farmyard with Free Range Chickens has sold on the second day of the exhibition Kiwi Life: Past and Present.In 1966 he won Sir Henry Kelliher’s Dawson Hallmark watercolour award, which propelled him to fame resulting in many commissions that came from remote farms where he enjoyed painting on location. His favourite medium was watercolours, but over time he ...

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The exhibition, Kiwi Life: Past and Present offers images no longer seen. Sold from the exhibition, Street Cleaner, Dunedin, by Ella Juliet Spicer (1876-1956) is an excellent example of a scene that could not be painted today. Horse and cart, no cars, a quiet street under brush.Ella Spicer’s art work is included in the collection in the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa, the Turnbull and Hochen Libraries. At the beginning of the twentieth century she exhibited prolifically in fine art galleries th...

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Sold on preview day, by Aston Greathead, Farm in the Rakaia Gorge, from the exhibition, Kiwi Life: Past and PresentIn recent times, the gallery has had the fortune to obtain and sell several Aston Greathead paintings, a track record set to continue with this exhibition. His watercolour art resonates with a wide range of gallery clients....

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Cass and Rita Angus are indivisible in terms of New Zealand art history. Any artist entering this space faces the daunting task of adding something unique to the established narrative. Using his novel expressive geometric landscape technique, Gaen accomplishes this task.Using the train tracks to create a natural parallax perspective that draws in the station buildings, left and right, the anticipated journey towards the Southern Alps appears distant and elusive. The isolated location of Cass in ...

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The Paulownia wood sculpture, Percy the Penguin, by award winning sculptor Rod Laurence has found a new home in the Waikato. A gallery favourite, especially of visiting children (of all ages). He will be missed.About this sculpture:Paulownia is a fast growing, deciduous tree endemic to Asia.The timber (called “Kiri” in Japan) is highly valued and is widely used in construction and for high value household items, furniture, musical instruments and other artifacts.Paulownia trees are quick-gro...

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Bernadette Ballantyne’s superb pastels never fail to amaze and daze gallery visitors. Sold today is her stunning composition, Outside the Kitchen Window, from the showcase, Flower Power.The Dutch realist painters of the Sixteenth and seventeenth century specialised in creating both symmetrical and asymmetrical realistic floral compositions. Ambrosius Bosschaert the Elder and Rachel Ruysch were associated with these forms that could approach the cadence of portraiture as they presented munifice...

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Sold from the Flower Power showcase are Carmel van der Hoeven’s two floral compositions, Cascade and In flow.For centuries artists have sought to represent floral patterns, attempting to curate and present the munificence of nature. Monet and the impressionists signalled a move away from accuracy in art representation by using daubing techniques designed to capture an overall feeling beyond the faithful rendition of petals, grasses, stalks and stems. This is seen in his paintings, The Artist�...

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Certainly in terms of subject matter Chris Greenslade’s atmospheric watercolour, Lady in the Fog, Swarbrick Landing retains a strong subject matter pastiche with John Singer Sargent’s 1883 composition, Landscape with Women in the Foreground and also his earlier impressionist-leaning Olive Trees from 1878. Yet the delicacy of Greenslade’s brush work makes this superb composition both immersive and realistic. It has attracted much admiration and attention in the gallery exhibition, Our River...

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Sandra Turner-Barlow’s striking image combines the ubiquitous M67 grenade (still in active use across all war zones) with a white poppy atop. This serves to soften the visual impact while dramatically creating a powerful juxtaposition of reflection and contemplation. The subject matter of this richly textured composition is dominated by the brightness and luminosity of the single white poppy. Stark, symbolic and artistically expressive. Now sold from the Showcase, Flower Power, to a New Zealan...

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Much admired as a gallery stand-out, gallery artist Rosanne Croucher has sold a signature oil on panel composition entitled Lake Rotokaeo in Forest Lake. Originally featured in the Winter Collection 2025 this stunning artistry will be taking pride of place for a family celebrating a personal milestone. A fabulous personal gift....

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A fine watercolour, Ribbon River that traces the source of the Waikato River to the estuary has been designed and executed by gallery artist, Hong Cumming, especially for the exhibition, Our River. Cultural, social and geographical iconography are on full display. One visitor saw this composition as the centre piece of her collection. This is why she bought it....

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Paced by five Maori poupou (pillar) sculptures, this muted view of the Waikato River allows the light to emerge sufficiently to capture the outline of the river banks, trees, foliage and the Victoria Bridge. Hong Cumming’s River of Light watercolour painting from the Our River exhibition has been sold to a visitor both haunted and attracted to the murky cadence of the composition....

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Gallery artist Rosanne Croucher captures  the atmospheric feel of the Waikato River in her roundel oil panel composition entitled Drift. Now sold from the exhibition, Our River....

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Sold from the exhibition, Our River, is a beautiful watercolour diptych entitled Afterglow by gallery artist Martin Necas. These paintings attracted significant attention at the opening of the exhibition. Now snapped up....

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Sold from the Our River exhibition is Rebecca Dowman-Ngapo’s rather remarkable composition, Threads of Life: River Palette. In the artist’s own words:“As an artist, colour is often where a painting begins. The Waikato River offers an extraordinary palette - from deep greens and soft blues to muddy browns, weathered stones and the shifting colours of its surrounding landscape. Colour becomes a way of measuring and experiencing the river, with the embroidery thread making something intangibl...

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Sold on preview day, gallery artist Bernadette Parson’s, intense watercolour, Water’s Edge. As with The Art of Hamilton Gardens exhibition, the current show, Our River, is resonating powerfully with buyers who have personal experiences that are represented by the compositions on display....

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“That gives me tingles” so spoke the buyer of Kirsten McIntosh’s oil on canvas composition, entitled, A Passage of Light, sold from the Our River exhibition....

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Sold immediately from the opening of the Our River exhibition is the Sandra Turner-Barlow acrylic on board composition, Backs to the Highways.Here we see Turner-Barlow’s signature expressive style place the Waikato river within a transitional historic narrative....

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Italian gallery artist, Giovanni Bonazzon has now sold all his watercolour compositions that were held by the gallery courtesy of Fine Art Society of New Zealand. On this occasion, it is Venetian Side Canal that is now permanently relocating to the Waikato. ...

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Gaen’s expressive geometric landscapes continue to attract interest in the gallery. And Buyers. On this occasion, the Musterer’s Hut has been sold from The Winter Collection 2026: Chaos & Calm.Scale, imagination, simplicity and a muted serene colour palette combine to create a compelling if not irresistible composition....

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Sold from the Out of Italy exhibition is the stunning architectural edifice Piccione con Duomo, by Italian artist, Elena Brambilla.This ink and watercolour composition breathes life into a stone structure that was started in 1386, reputedly completed in 1965 although by some interpretations originally anticipated to be completed a thousand years from inception. So this magnificent piece of art could be said to have captured the Duomo in ‘mid-build’....

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Sold from the showcase The Way We Were: Icons of the 60s, is the Debra Thompson striking composition, Marilyn. Bought by a collector who will be returning to 'The Mount' with this new acquisition.A luminous reimagining of an enduring icon, this mixed media portrait draws inspiration from Marilyn Monroe’s celebrated 1954 “Ballerina Series” photographed by Milton H. Greene. Set against a richly floral backdrop, Monroe’s unmistakable beauty is softened with romantic femininity while layered...

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Sold from The Winter Collection 2026: Chaos & Calm is Carmel Van Der Hoeven's composition, Which is Chaos and Which is Calm I. Since buyer previously purchased, Which is Chaos and Which is Calm II, this 'diptych twitch' is destined to stay together. Quite right too. ...