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Lesley Alexander's graceful and refined composition, Pig's Ear belies the brusque and inelegant name and clearly not a factor in its purchase! Sold today from the Botanica exhibition that continues to appeal to gallery visitors....

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As the highest form of Chinese art, landscapes can be majestic and alluring. Yong Ming Liu's compositions have this stature as was seen in the Chinese exhibition: Inheritance & Innovation, that featured in May of 2021. On this occasion, the painting, Small House by the Water in Autumn, has sold to a local collector from the Resident Artists' Gallery....

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The Botanica exhibition continues to attract buyers. Annette Judd's vivid composition, Magnolia Seedhead is the most recent piece to find fertile soil with an avid collector....

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Marzena Wilkes, Welcome Swallow Gallery artist from the UK has experienced success, with all her paintings now sold. Silent Love, from the Resident Artists' Gallery has found favour with a romantic collector who wanted this composition to express birthday greeting for his partner. Most worthy....

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The exceptional artistry of Rebecca Dowman-Ngapo, consistently seen in the Welcome Swallow Gallery, has never been more evident than in her splendid watercolour composition, Tui in Pink Blossom III, sold as joint birthday gift, taken to wing to settle with a pair of local collectors....

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The See One See All, composition comes courtesy of Lucy Downing and the series of paintings presented by the Hamilton Girl High School alongside the Welcome Swallow Gallery exhibition, Still Slices if Life. Now sold to a proud local collector....

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Lisa Dickson's delicate and delightful composition, Apple Blossom, was the final sale on the opening night of the Botanica exhibition at the Welcome Swallow Gallery....

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Apparently, with the new Botanica exhibition at the Welcome Swallow Gallery, no leaf is being left unturned, as it were. This visual watercolour stunner from artist Claire Broughton presents a phalanx of Eucalyptus Leaves. Eleven of them that have quickly found their forever home....

From London Art Lover, Barbara Brown

In collaboration, ‘Studio Proba’ and ‘Enjoy the Weather’ transformed the Miami Design District that is already famous for its many galleries and contemporary art installations. With large imposing sculptures this curatorial team created vibrant, futuristic, colourful spaces. The designer Alex Proba says that her main goal is to make people happy, if only for a second. This amazing project transforms the neighbourhood into an interactive shape wonderland. It is a powerful celebration of c...

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The Himalayan Strawberry Tree.  This is Janet Marshall's magnificent visual feat of Botanical art that includes cross-sectional studies with measurements and data, together with growth patterns and a full tree illustration. It is a tour de force....

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Birgit Rhode has produced an astonishingly powerful composition in the form of a Hydrangea Autumnal Leaf at the end of its life cycle. The texture and tint of vibrant colour belies the onset of imminent death and ultimate decay. However, for the buyer of this painting, this leaf is now captured and destined to remain a visual feast....

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A most exquisite Lacebark rendition. Gillian Receveur continues to appeal to Welcome Swallow Gallery patrons with her third sale on the first day on the Botanica exhibition....

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Two fabulous Giclee compositions illustrating Harakeke on Harakeke from artist Vicki Jones have quickly found favour with local collectors; both selling within hours of each other....

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Janet Marshall who stands as a significant contributor to New Zealand art with inter alia thirteen stamp illustrations to her name, has presented to the Botanica exhibition a stunning science-led composition entitled Mountain Flax. Sold to a local collector on preview day....

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Botanical artist Jennifer Duval-Smith has joined the early sellers from the preview day of the Botanica exhibition. Supreme depictions of scientific value do not preclude artistic license. Here we have a diptych that features a shameless display of Artichoke 'plant dancing'. Art, science and fun. SOLD...

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Gillian Receveur's Pohutukawa and Kaka Beak and Yellow Admiral are early sellers on preview day of the new exhibition at the Welcome Swallow Gallery, Botanica. Gorgeous compositions. Irresistible. SOLD....

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Gallery artist Juliet Roper continues to find buyers for her work. From the exhibition, Still Slices of Life, a local collector has uplifted House Plant I. An oil and cold wax with acrylic on canvas composition, this vivacious art work channels elements of Picasso's early abstract work....

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This group of sculptured chess pieces by gallery artist, Sylvia Sinel, consists of Queen, King and Pawn. It is part of the gallery exhibition, Still Slices of Life. Entitled I Have Your Back, these pieces are modelled after the traditional and familiar Staunton design, set out by FIDE, the International Chess Federation. However, the similarity to the match play chess pieces ends at this point. These are much bigger, sculptured in Stoneware and configured to support strategic decision-making as ...

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The second of Helen Cairney's beautiful fig illustrations has found favor with a buyer. Still Life with Figs I, will soon be on its way back to Wellington, appropriately, also the home of the artist!...

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Sandra Barlow's  composition AF1s follows a Still Life tradition that stretches back to van Gogh's 1888 painting, Shoes. This contemporary, delicately illustrated watercolour, invites the viewer to imagine activities, past and future that are associated with the iconic AF1 Nike brand. Although currently 'at rest' this footwear clearly envisages nascent movement. Sold to a local collector....

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Two wonderful photographs from the Hamilton Girls' High School exhibition by Lilly Anderson and Tierney Tremewan are latest photographs to attract buyers. ...

Exhibition Review from Maryline Panis, New York

For its inaugural exhibition, the Hunter Dunbar Gallery in Chelsea, NYC has honored abstract women artists - Ninth Street and Beyond: 70 Years of women in Abstraction - Part 1: The Gestural is a phenomenal exhibition. The abstract painting movement is well known and recognized thanks to iconic male artists such as Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko and many more. However, until recently, women artists who belonged to this movement from the very beginning have been largely ignored. W...

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Gallery artist Debra Thompson continues to sell all her compositions at Welcome Swallow. On this occasion, from the March 2022 Resident Artists Gallery, the stunning Twiggy has found a new home in the Coromandel.  ...

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From the exhibition, Still Slices of Life, gallery artists Hong Cumming's outstanding composition Crack-up has been sold to a local collector who found the piece to be egg-citing. Its purchase poached the piece from the gallery. Sorry. ...

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Selling on the opening night of the Welcome Swallow Gallery Exhibition, Still Slices if Life, these photographic compositions pace a new creativity for gallery visitors to reflect on and enjoy....