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Sandra Turner-Barlow's art continues to appear on the weekly list of items sold in the gallery. In this case her delicate watercolour brush presented Winter Rose, from the Resident Artists Gallery, to a buyer who loved this piece and so bought. Although its time in the gallery was short this composition was universally admired....

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From the Resident Artists’ Gallery, Gallery artist Maggie Sullivan has sold her attractive Oil on Panel, Still Life composition, Blue Vase with Oranges....

The Senior Team

In our quest to raise funds for children leading incredibly tough lives, our volunteers are everything to the work of the gallery and gift shop. They are dedicated, determined and frankly unstoppable. Today we celebrated Vera Robinson's 90th birthday, who remains junior in age to two other stalwart volunteers, Catherine Dickie and Heather Allan. A planter, cake and applause paced the afternoon's proceedings. Priceless the legacy: immeasurable the good....

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Sold from the Winter Collection 2023 is the magnificent digital photograph, Golden Peaks by gallery artist, Stephen Milner ...

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A Bridge Through Time, by gallery artist Rebecca Dowman-Ngapo from the Structure & Place exhibition is soon to be re-positioned. In which time zone we cannot say, as this fabulous watercolour composition 'spans' different eras in the bridge's history. ...

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A beautiful delicate graphite by gallery artist Sandra Turner-Barlow, entitled Lake and Tree from the Resident Artist's gallery, has found an appreciative home. ...

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Originally part of theWaikato Watercolourist I exhibition that was interrupted by the first covid lockdown, this composition, St Peter's Door by gallery artist Sandra Turner-Barlow, has now found a permanent home, acquired by an avid local collector....

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Alongside the Sandra Turner-Barlow's Audi Five Cities Showcase, the gallery continues to sell her work located in the Resident Artists' gallery. On this occasion her whimsical watercolour study, Stolen has found favour with a local collector who found the painting too irresistible to pass on....

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Hong Cumming continues to attract buyers for her compositions that form part of the Structure & Place exhibition that is running parallel with the Audi Five Cities Showcase. When the exhibition closes her splendid watercolour, Millhouse, will be up for relocation, On first sight, the buyer was immediately enchanted by the painting. Quite right too....

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From the Structure & Place exhibition, Sandra Turner-Barlow sells Homage to Rita. This is an evocative oil on board composition that is curated alongside Turner-Barlow's Audi Five Cities Showcase....

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Gallery artist Julie Mello uses a florid intuitive impressionist style to capture her subject. This is very evident in her composition, Waikato Life Blood, sold to American expats from Pennsylvania, who fell in love with it at first sight. The Waikato River now left the Resident Artists' Gallery, set to flow elsewhere....

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Returning to her watercolour roots, gallery artists Sandra Turner-Barlow presents a sublime botanical art composition, English Oak , sold from the Resident Artist's gallery....

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Sold from the Structure & Place exhibition, the remarkable edifice of the Public Trust building, Wellington by gallery artist Hong Cumming. This beautifully structured intimately technical composition was uplifted by a Wellington firm, but will stay in the gallery for the duration of the exhibition thus enabling the public enjoy this painting....

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Christchurch is the last painting in the series, the Audi Five Cities Showcase and was possibly the most challenging. I wanted the composition to recognize the tragedy of recent events that included enormous physical and emotional separation. Yet this work also needed to capture a unified desire to move forward to overcome the fractures caused by nature and man.The stylized buildings that dominate the painting represent the strength of the people of Christchurch standing together, while the Al N...

Audi Five Cities Showcase: Moving Towards by Sandra Turner-Barlow - media coverage

Gallery Curator, Clive Gilson was interviewed by Jesse Mulligan regarding the upcoming Turner-Barlow Showcase. Click below to hear the interview:https://www.rnz.co.nz/audio/player?audio_id=2018904796...

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Sold from the Waikato Watercolourists III exhibition, the magnificently moody watercolour composition, Coromandel, by gallery artist Bernadette Parsons. A visual loss to the gallery a wonderful gain for the buyer who will use the painting to bring fine art to her office....

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New gallery artist, Chris Greenslade has quickly established his work @ Welcome Swallow with Winter Morning at Gordonton, Waikato, finding an avid buyer for his watercolour style....

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Gallery artist Diana Seavill continues to attract buyers for her intriguing abstract compositions. In this case, it is the Sea Bed  that has been moved to another property, beyond its time in the gallery where it was much appreciated by many. Sold to one....

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Sold from the Resident Artist’s Gallery, the charcoal composition, Nocturnal Whispers by gallery artist Hong Cumming, has attracted considerable attention. While viewing, there is, at some point, the shock realization that as we are observing the owl, it is actually the owl who is observing us. Intensely. It’s a ‘must buy’ item. ...

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Sold from this year's Waikato Watercolourists III exhibition, Lemonade Fruit, by Italian gallery artist, Elena Brambilla. As a watercolour botanical artist Brambilla is able to demonstrate discrete, intense mastery of her subject. This fruit has surely been picked!...

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The Welcome Swallow Gallery announces it's next major event - the Audi Five Cities Showcase: Moving Towards, by gallery artist Sandra Turner-Barlow.Four of the city paintings have been seen and sold from the gallery in the last two years. Christchurch, unseen until the launch event will be centre-stage as for the first time all paintings are returning to the gallery from private collections. Sponsored by Audi New Zealand this is the first time that an artist has captured a socio-political interp...

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Elena Brambilla has attracted much interest in her residency at the Ward St. gallery, While working on new compositions has sold these two beautiful botanical watercolours, Jasmine Leaf and Three Rosehips....

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Gallery artist, Stacey Moore has produced two very attractive abstract compositions, namely Milky Way and In the Stillness, now sold from the Resident Artists’ Gallery to a local collector. The happy couple will stay together, now destined for the South Island....