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Janet Marshall's beautiful watercolour Swallow on Camelia takes flight from the Welcome Swallow Gallery exhibition, As You Like It. Swallow leaving Swallow, as it were. Janet is the illustrator of many botanical art works including a suite of New Zealand stamps....

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From the Our Times exhibition. Sue Currie's evocative and highly stylized composition, Early Winter, Lake Hayes has now found it's forever home. This is not surprising for the buyers who are very familiar with the lake and landscape rendered in this splendid watercolour....

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Toni Kingstone's magnificent acrylic and resin composition, Ghost Town from the As You Like It exhibition has passed into ownership in the city of Hamilton. Greatly admired by all gallery visitors, this work reflects Kingstone's development of the Magical Realism movement that surged in Europe during the inter-war period.Here, we see traditional artistic content, an Auckland city scape, surrounded by a magical setting. Kingstone's New Zealand perspective builds on the 2022 Realismo Magico  ...

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From the As You Like It exhibition, Italian artist Elena Brambilla's exquisite watercolour, Tui & Kowhai, has taken wing across the Tasman to take up residence in Sydney, Australia. ...

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From the Botanica exhibition, this gorgeous, vibrant composition, Tulipa, by Lisa Dickson has been much appreciated and now replanted in it's permanent garden....

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Always a gallery favourite, Toni Kingstone's acrylic & resin roundel, entitled Mirage, from the exhibition, As You Like It, was witnessed and seen very clearly by a local collector whose admiration manifested in uplifting the composition to it's new home. ...

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'Flood of sales' for Julie Mello's gorgeous Darling river compositions; Judd's Lagoon, from the As You Like It exhibition now on its way to a home in the Waikato, purchased by a discerning art collector....

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It is always a wonderful occasion when an artist, new to the Gallery sells their work for the first time. From the exhibition, As You Like It, Julie Mello's atmospheric Queensland composition depicting the Daring river , Along the Bank, has found favour with a first time visitor to the gallery. New artist, new visitor, new year. ...

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Selling from the As You Like It exhibition, Toni Kingstone's, beautiful resin on acrylic composition entitled Winter's Approach. Destined for its new home in Boston, USA....

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Simply entitled, 1961, this incredibly powerful acrylic and mixed media on board composition of Jackie Kennedy, by gallery artist Debra Thompson has sold to a local collector and will be shown in the gallery during the month of January 2023. Worth a gallery visit in its own right, it will be shown alongside a spectacular, available for purchase portrait of Andy Warhol, complete with light installation.  ...

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At this time of year, Yasmin Davis has, for many years presented her signature Koru with original watercolour ceramics that are much loved by gallery supporters. Featured here is her magnificent major composition of a Kereru surrounded by bucolic bliss. Sold today along with approximately smaller 75 pieces leaving the gallery through November and December....

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Gallery artist, Juliet Roper works across several media and styles. This Is Me is a superb illustration of her fine contemporary mixed media art work. Bought as a family gift to be treasured forever....

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From the As You Like It exhibition, gallery artist Maggie B. Sullivan's compositions entitled Passages: Hearing the Call and Glimmer of Light have added an atmospheric cadence to gallery for viewers to both admire and ponder. Now sold to an enthusiastic buyer of her work....

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In the word of the sculptress, Sylvia Sinel, This regal lady emerged from the kiln pretty much as I had imagined her during the making. It doesn't happen all that often so I'm super happy. Hand-built ceramic vessel 500 x 170 x 110 mm glazed with various shades of engobes and white glaze.Sold today to a New Zealand collector. It's a beauty....

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It is always an important occasion when the gallery sells an artist's work for the first time. In this case Li-Swan Lim's composition, Shinrin-Yoku - (Forest Bathing) Tranquility, an original watercolour on Cold Pressed 100% Cotton Paper, marks the beginning of an art journey for the gallery, the artist and the  buyer....

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Sandra Barlow's watercolour Fog Flowers have been gallery favourites; these two beauties sold together today to a discerning local collector who pounced on them within an hour of being hung. Quite right too....

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Kirsten McIntosh's brilliant composition, Light on the Dunes, has sold to a local collector. Much admired by all gallery goers, for this painting Kirsten used many acrylic and oil layers to build up the colours and depth. The result is a stunning image of the Petone inlet towards Wellington Harbour, during the late afternoon.  This is where the first European settlers arrived on 22 January 1840, on the ship Aurora. The gallery is always proud to share New Zealand history through the ar...

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Shafts of sunlight highlight Charlotte Giblin’s wonderful expressionist composition, Safe Passage II, from the Gallery exhibition, As You Like It. A piece of the ‘Forest of Arden’ now owned by a local collector....

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This magnificent sculpture, Totem Woman,  from gallery artist Jenni Taris, was brought into the gallery this morning and GONE by early afternoon. Now the story behind this special piece of art is that Totem Woman represents travel and adventure. It was never anticipated that the gallery was a mere pit stop. Still, she has gone to investigate the environs in Tauranga. Happy travels!!...

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The wonderful composition, The Golden View in the As You Like It, exhibition, from gallery artist Charlotte Giblin has been snapped up by a local collector. Charlotte's expressionist use of vivid colour has made her work a favourite of gallery goers this festive season....

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These two very special scrolls by gallery artist Yong Ming Liu for the Exhibition, Chinese Art: Inheritance & Innovation have been sold to a European collector who recognizes their intrinsic value as representative of Chinese art and the cultural traditions that date back to the Ming Dynasty. To date this exhibition has been the Welcome Swallow Gallery's most successful, selling 90% of the compositions available. The sale of these two magnificent scrolls, painted in the claborate ...

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Hong Cummings' romantic composition, NAC DC-3 HLZ, evokes a bygone era. First presented at the Waikato Watercolourists II exhibition earlier in the year, this fine watercolour will soon take pride of place in a Hamilton city office that itself is resplendent of the theme of transportation....

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Gallery artist Rebecca Dowman-Ngapo has provided the Our Times exhibition with her wonderful signature watercolour compositions that reflect how connections between people are often said most effectively with flowers. On this occasion, the painting Thinking of You, has achieved this distinction for an avid local collector....