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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....

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....

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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!...

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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....

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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. ...

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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. ...

Audrey 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. ...

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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....

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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. ...

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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....

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Spanning Time, by gallery artist Sandra Barlow, is leaving Hamilton on its way to join the portfolio of a Wellington collector. Sold today....

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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?...

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Juliet Roper's intense portrait of Marilyn, from the Resident Artists' Gallery, proved irresistible to an east coast buyer. Now on its way home....

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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. ...