Gallery sales from Hamilton Girls' High School
With both painting and photography, Hamilton Girls' High School are showing the creative cadence of the new generation of local artists. Bring it....
March 14, 2022SOLD!
This beautifully coloured and highly stylized composition, Autumn Mosaic, is presented by SANDZ and Welcome Swallow Gallery artist, Deshan Walallavita. This painting quickly picked up the first red dot of the night!...
March 11, 2022SOLD!
Helen Cairney has five such delightful compositions in the Still Slices of Life exhibition. Early on in the launch evening, Still Life with Figs II was the first to be sold....
March 11, 2022SOLD!
The composition, Last Light in a Kanuka Swamp is rich yet mellow example of Martin Necas’s work. It combines a tranquil setting with a colour palate that stresses the interplay of sunset on both water and sky. The illustration radiates warmth at end of day. ...
March 11, 2022SOLD!
As the Waikato Watercolourist II exhibition takes its leave from the Welcome Swallow Galley, buyers' interests do not necessarily expire within the same temporal parameter. Sold today, Sandra Barlow's expressionist composition, Tolkien Time, has found a new home in Wellington. ...
March 10, 2022Audrey Hepburn by Debra Thompson
There are some paintings in the gallery that are not possible to hang onto. People come to admire, but they also are determined to buy. Audrey Hepburn by gallery artist Debra Thompson is just such a composition. Sold from the Resident Artists' Gallery we asked the buyer if they would leave it for just a few days for gallery visitors to admire. A thank you is in order. However, Audrey has now left the building. And yes, this is a repeat narrative. It equally applies. ...
March 9, 2022SOLD!
There are some paintings in the gallery that are not possible to hang onto. People come to admire, but they also are determined to buy. Frida Kahlo by gallery artist Debra Thompson is just such a composition. Sold from the Resident Artists Gallery we asked the buyer if they would leave it for just a few days for gallery visitors to admire. A thank you is in order. However, Frida has now left the building....
March 9, 2022SOLD!
Gallery artist Sandra Barlow continues to find buyers for her work. On this occasion, sold today from the Waikato Watercolourists II exhibition, is Fog Flower I. No doubt this sale foreshadows the forthcoming Winter mists that the Waikato region is duly known for. ...
March 7, 2022SOLD!
Juliet Roper's contemporary pop art, in the current Resident Artists' Gallery, continues to attract buyers. On this occasion it is the Homage to Warhol composition that has found a home. The buyer is connected to New Zealand artist, Billy Apple who spent time with Warhol in New York during the 1960s. The Gallery is excited to be the forum through which these historic connections can be made....
March 4, 2022SOLD
Spanning Time, by gallery artist Sandra Barlow, is leaving Hamilton on its way to join the portfolio of a Wellington collector. Sold today....
March 4, 2022SOLD!
Aston Martin DB5, by gallery artist, Debra Thompson has now been driven off to join a distinguished portfolio owned by a local collector. Can you hear the music?...
March 4, 2022SOLD!
Juliet Roper's intense portrait of Marilyn, from the Resident Artists' Gallery, proved irresistible to an east coast buyer. Now on its way home....
March 3, 2022SOLD!
Juliet Roper's composition, How Can I Trust Him? from the Resident Artists Gallery has just sold to a local collector who is currently building a portfolio of contemporary art from the Welcome Swallow Gallery. ...
March 1, 2022SOLD!
Sylvia Sinel's sculptured brilliant chess pieces in the Resident Artists' Gallery that form the Game On collection, have just made some moves, with the King and Queen off to explore new adventures. ...
February 26, 2022SOLD!
Martin Necas's composition, Hakarimata by Lake Kainui, sold from the Waikato Watercolourists II exhibition, demonstrates the continuing attraction of gallery clients towards majestic expressionist paintings. This superb piece has now found favour with a local art collector. ...
February 24, 2022Exhibition review: Realismo Magico
The Realismo Magico exhibition took place at the Palazzo Reale, Milano between 19th October 2021 and 27th February 2022. This movement lasted a defined period between 1920 and 1935, although there remain splashes of the genre before and aft and also in literature. The term was coined by German critic Franz Roh who described Magic Realism as generic anti-modernist and a ‘return to order’ and indeed classicism, in the face of expressionism and other artistic ‘distortions’. Accordingly, Mag...
February 23, 2022S O L D !
Of the many artistic renditions of the iconic Fairfield Bridge in Hamilton, a focus on the walk-way rather than the arches and roadbed, is rarely captured. Rebecca Dowman-Ngapo's watercolour composition, Walk With Me, admirably achieves this distinction. Recently sold from the Waikato Watercolourists II exhibition to a local collector, this painting that has garnered significant praise, has found it's forever home....
February 18, 2022Constable exhibition in London
Late Constable The Royal Academy of Arts show, the Late Constable exhibition, is dedicated to the last decade of his life. It was sad part of his life, as his wife Maria had died leaving him with 7 children under the age of twelve. I think it was an intense, challenging period for this famous landscape artist. Despite grief, fragile health and all his responsibilities as a single parent, his artistic achievement in his 50s were extraordinary. Constable took landscape art to a new, serious l...
February 3, 2022London Calling
From time to time this blog will feature art reviews of exhibitions from around the world. Below, the first installment is from Barbara Brown, Art Lover from London. Light Lines: The Architectural Photographs of Helene Binet in the Royal Academy of Arts In London with all the galleries around we are spoiled for choice. I go to lots of exhibitions, at least once a week. The last one which had that magic touch was Light Lines: The Architectural Photographs of Helene Binet, in the Royal Academy of ...
January 20, 2022SOLD!
Sandra Barlow's highly delicate Waikato fauna-inspired petal studies continue to attract active interest. Now sold, from the Waikato Watercolourists exhibition is her Fog Flower III painting....
January 15, 2022SOLD!
One of the defining features of a watercolour exhibition is going to be a composition that demonstrates the skills required with fine delicate brushstrokes. Sandra Barlow's, Fog Flower II painting is a perfect illustration of this principle. Sold on Day 2 of the Waikato Watercolour II exhibition....
January 15, 2022SOLD!
The aptly titled Waikato in Watercolour, by gallery artist, Bernadette Parsons has been quickly acquired on the opening night of the Waikato Watercolourists II exhibition. True to Bernadette's consummate watercoulour skill and technique, this composition captures the beauty and grandeur of the Waikato....
January 14, 2022SOLD!
Hong Cumming, new Gallery artist has wasted no time in establishing her footprint at the Waikato Watercolourists II exhibition, selling the Catalogue cover composition, Romancing the Bridge earlier in the day. No wonder. It is a superb, highly collectable painting....
January 14, 2022SOLD!
Red dotting a painting that has barely been hung in the new exhibition, The Waikato Watercolourists II, is always a delight for the exhibition curators. Bernadette Parsons, long established Welcome Swallow artist has five compositions that grace the gallery in this exhibition and it is Across the Firth of Thames, that has rapidly found its way into someone's treasured collection....
January 12, 2022SOLD!
Martin Necas's, watercolour composition, Last Light on River Bank, has just sold from the Resident Artists' Gallery. Martin's paintings always capture a magnificent mood that enables the imagination to wander and reflect....
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