Announcing a new Strategic Partnership
As part of gallery services we are frequently asked to assist in the hanging and curation of art, newly acquired from the gallery. Most often an understanding of interior design is a prerequisite for art to be integrated into the aesthetic imperatives prior established. With this in mind the Welcome Swallow Gallery has entered into a stratgegic partnership with Juliet Coleman Interiors of Cambridge. In this way, our aim is to better service our mutual clients. ...
June 26, 2026SOLD!
New gallery artist Jennifer Edwards has sold her first painting in the gallery from the Winter Collection 2026: Chaos & Calm. Midnight bloom boldly presents a stylised floral composition with a strong black background. Striking enough to garner attention, commentary and purchase....
June 25, 2026SOLD!
Gallery artist, Juliet Roper challenges viewers with her art, as is the case with Phoenix Rising, sold from the Design is Everything exhibition.This painting references the Bauhaus movement, but in the context of war time Berlin. Much of Berlin was destroyed by Allied bombs. In the rebuild, some remnants were retained as war memorials. Arguably the most notable of these is the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church in central Berlin that is portrayed here with a backdrop of a Bauhaus-style building also...
June 20, 2026SOLD!
Protrusion is a remarkable expressive geometric landscape from gallery artists, Gaen, now sold from the Winter Collection 2026: Chaos & Calm exhibition. The painting that was sold as the exhibition opened has been acquired by a couple experienced in outdoor recreational adventure, particularly in the South Island....
June 18, 2026SOLD!
Debra Thompson's showcase, The Way We Were: Icons of the 60s, is attracting great interest and buyers. Clay & Liston has been sold to a couple who wish to adorn their sports room with this iconic image.A commanding tribute to one of the most mythologised moments in sporting history, Clay & Liston captures the instant a young Cassius Clay, soon to be better known as Muhammad Ali, announced himself to the world with absolute conviction. The painting freezes the electric aftermath of the 19...
June 10, 2026SOLD!
Sold from the Debra Thompson showcase, The Way We Were: Icons of the 60s, is the stunning composition entitled, Paul & Robert.This is a bold reimagining of two of cinema’s most enduring anti-heroes, Paul Newman and Robert Redford’s, portrayal of Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid that captures the swagger, danger and loyalty that made these outlaws cultural legends. Built through layered mixed media and sealed beneath a luminous resin finish, the work balances rugged western mythology ...
June 10, 2026SOLD!
As The Art of Hamilton Gardens completes its place in the gallery, interest remains high with ongoing sales. This includes the luscious green watercolour composition from gallery artist, Rebecca Dowman-Ngapo. The sale is accompanied by the artist's following narrative.Nā te Rangi te Mātauranga, nā te Whenua te HauhakeFrom the sky comes knowledge, from the land comes harvestThis painting reflects the deep relationship between celestial knowledge and cultivation in te ao Māori. Guided by ...
June 9, 2026SOLD!
Attracting a stream of visitors, Debra Thompson's showcase, The Way We Were: Icons of the 60s, is also attracting buyers. On this occasion. Steve McQueen will soon be on its way, from gallery to garage. Raw speed, cinematic cool and masculine restraint converge in Steve McQueen, captured during the filming of Le Mans. This is a tribute to the actor who transformed understatement into legend. Inspired by the iconic racing film, the work layers Gulf-liveried Porsche imagery, vintage motorsport gra...
June 8, 2026SOLD!
Sold from the new Showcase, The Way We Were: Icons of the 60s, is the contemporary composition, entitled Audrey from gallery artist Debra Thompson. This painting captures the elegance and theatrical grandeur of the iconic Ascot scene from My Fair Lady, inspired by the exquisite costume designs of Cecil Beaton. Using mixed medium on canvas, the composition celebrates Audrey Hepburn as Eliza Doolittle at her most poised and glamorous, combining vintage sophistication with Thompson’s contemp...
June 6, 2026SOLD!
Gallery artist, Chris Greenslade’s exquisite watercolour brush continues to attract the discerning art collector. Sold from the Design is Everything exhibition is the composition, Chateau Tongariro. Painted from a different angle than typically viewed Greenslade adds further poignancy by showing a lazy chain slung across the entrance way thereby preventing a climber from gaining entry to this iconic building.Foretelling an end of era narrative, mountains appear behind the chateau, ominously es...
June 5, 2026SOLD!
Who says 'soft pastel', says gallery artist, Bernadette Ballantyne. Her exquisite use of the medium is well establshed. An artist, award winner, teacher and seller of Keeping in Line 'in the kitchen', from The Art of Hamilton Gardens exhibition contiunues and cements her standing as a gallery favourite....
May 21, 2026SOLD!
Sold from The Art of Hamilton Gardens, is Sandra Turner-Barlow's distinct watercolour composition, A Bridge in Time that references the flow of water and the passage of time through the gardens....
May 19, 2026SOLD!
Aston Greathead's watercolour Walter Peak, Lake Wakatipu on display during The Art of Hamilton Gardens exhibition has been snapped up by discerning art buyers who appreciate this New Zealand landscape form....
May 17, 2026SOLD!
From The Art of Hamilton Gardens exhibition is an intriguing composition from gallery artist Sandra Turner-Barlow, entitled Te Parapara that features the Maori garden produce in the form of Kumara. In this case, interactively holding in place a paint brush that gleams in the soft light. As John Constable and Camille Pissarro frequently painted vegetable gardens and the changing seasons, so Turner-Barlow envisages the gardens and their produce as they record and reflect the passage of time....
May 17, 2026SOLD!
Cole Raithby's grand narrative contribution to The Art of Hamilton Gardens exhibition is to imagine the Gardens as a dance. Indeed the sold piece, Dancing Grass, by way of pointillism and van Gogh curvature, creates just such a powerful impression....
May 13, 2026SOLD!
Few visitors to the gallery have passed the composition, Lakeside Lingering at Turtle Lake, by gallery artist, Rosanne Croucher, without stopping and marvelling at the light creating a translucent effect through the rose petals. No surprise that this highly vibrant painting was going to be planted elsewhere. In this case to a new home recently acquired by a couple who intend to replace their previous art collection with gallery paintings. Quite right too....
May 11, 2026SOLD!
Gallery artist, Rosanne Croucher's compositions have attracted much commentary from gallery visitors - now transpired into the sale of Lakeside Lingering at Turtle Lake from The Art of Hamilton Gardens exhibition. Working in oils her exhibition pieces, present an atmospheric realism technique that captures the magical mood provided by nature. Her compositions communicate the munificence that the Gardens display....
May 11, 2026SOLD!
Much admired and now sold, Michele Rumney's composition entitled, 'The Visitors', from the exhibition, The Art of Hamilton Gardens.Michele Rumney’s painting technique is a strong pastiche drawn from French artist Andre Derain's world of 1910 and the birth of the Fauvism movement that used strong gestural lines to imply both structure and content of composition. In this exhibition Rumney extends these lines to appear as the actual content that defines the subject matter. This can be seen i...
May 11, 2026SOLD!
The final composition of Carmel Van Der Hoeven's hexaptych, Six Easy Pieces in The Art of Hamilton Gardens exhibition, has been sold. The Chinese Scholar's Garden, much admired and the subject of many inquiries in both New Zealand and Australia will now be replanted in Hamilton....
May 6, 2026SOLD!
The calm of the Japanese Garden in The Art of Hamilton Gardens exhibition has been supremely captured by watercolourist, and gallery artist Chris Greenslade in the now purchased Japanese Garden of Contemplation II....
May 5, 2026SOLD!
Gallery artist, Bernadette Parsons continues to attract buyers for her watercolour impressionist compositions. On this occasion, Mansfield Gardens from The Art of Hamilton Gardens exhibition has been relocated, uplifted by an art teacher who very much appreciated the atmospheric feel of the painting. ...
May 2, 2026SOLD!
Curiosity and Colour at the Indian Garden, by gallery artist Aleesha Winter has found a home with a sunflower lover who was enchanted with the 'focus' of the composition. It's wonderful to see an artist selling out their pieces in an exhibition, especially when the artist has not been previously seen at the gallery. The Art of Hamilton Gardens exhibition is the better for it.In her own words; 'There are many doors at the gardens. Many are a deliberate part of the garden installation and can be o...
May 1, 2026SOLD!
Cole Raithby's watercolour composition, Floral Dance, has sold to a local collector who was intrigued by the notion of The Art of Hamilton Gardens exhibition being interpreted as a form of dancing.According to the gallery exhibition plate, 'the best way to describe Cole Raithby’s art is as a continuous dialogue with the impressionist painters of the late 19th and early 20th century. His three pieces in this exhibition are a distinct pastiche with the early work of Monet and more specifically t...
May 1, 2026SOLD!
And so gallery artist Carmel Van Der Hoeven, in selling the Ancient Egyptian Garden has sold five of her Six Easy Pieces that form part of The Art of Hamilton Gardens exhibition. This particular painting will see a part of ancient Egypt relocated to Auckland....
April 28, 2026SOLD!
Sold from the Pepper exhibition, Julie Mello's post impressionst oil on boad composition entitled Grazing thje Plains #2. The buyer was particularly attracted to the strength of the colour palette, bringing to life the vegetation and background elevations....
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