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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. ...

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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. ...

Exhibition 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...

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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....

Constable 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...

London 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 ...

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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....

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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....

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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....

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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....

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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....

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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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Gallery artist Robyn Ninnes donated her calm and serene composition In the Nikau Grove to the gallery, so that in sale, all proceeds would go to the children's programs supported by the Trust. Thank you Robyn....

New Exhibition!

The countdown begins for the Craig's Investment Partners sponsored, Welcome Swallow Gallery exhibition, "The Waikato Watercoloursits II".It is now two years since the Welcome Swallow Gallery launched the first watercolour exhibition in New Zealand that specified a curatorial interest in the Waikato as of geographical interest to art. Despite being truncated by the global pandemic, The Waikato Watercolourists attracted wide interest and coverage, both locally and nationally. This new exhibition. ...

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Toni Kingstone's spectacular 800mm acrylic and resin composition, The Island, has been 'castaway' to its forever home. For the buyer, their 'Christmas' Island. ...

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Marise Rarere's composition, Woven With a Blue Note, from the Ambiguity exhibition has attracted much admiration from gallery visitors and has now sold. This piece is a  spectacular, beautifully framed addition to Rarere's woven series that has been selling from the Welcome Swallow Gallery since opening in 2019....

Claudia Grutke sells out

Claudia Grutke's return to the Welcome Swallow Gallery has been rewarded with all her works being sold. These two abstract compositions challenge our sense and sensibility regarding how far 'reason' can address the complexities of the human condition. The QR code seen in Mini-Cloud II is perhaps a reminder that we are apt to search for simple solutions to our collective problems....

Gallery Commission

From time to time, the Welcome Swallow Gallery is commissioned to provide bespoke art for gallery clients. Seen here is a beautiful composition from gallery artist Kirsten McIntosh. Typically, Kirsten's landscapes work energetically from foreground through to shards of light that capture hilly contours and finally dramatic skyscape. The commission was shown in the gallery prior to being collected by the client....

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Mana is a superb resin on acrylic roundel from gallery artist, Toni Kingstone that demonstrates her painterly craft in brilliant yet discrete swirling colours. The viewer is able to discern multiple forms and structures implicitly embedded within the composition. Now sold to a delighted local collector....

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From the Resident Artists' Gallery (RAG), Helen Cairney's exquisite study, Kereru Alone, has quickly taken wing after a brief perch in the RAG. Helen's compositions have long found favour with Welcome Swallow Gallery art aficionados. Quite right too....

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To a discerning local collector, Amongst Friends and From Memory, were the last two pieces from gallery artist Maggie Sullivan, in the current Ambiguity exhibition.  These wonderful impressionist compositions have drawn much admiration from gallery visitors.  ...

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Cloudscape by gallery artist Claudia Grutke, is a quintessential representation of abstract Ambiguity that the current gallery exhibition is proud to display and sell. This has been sold to a local buyer who has purposefully chosen this piece to complement their existing collection. ...

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First seen in the Welcome Swallow Gallery Exhibition in late 2020, Kirsten McIntosh's evocative New Zealand scene, Mai Mai at Rotoehu has been purchased by an Italian collector. This serene composition is also featured in the Welcome Swallow Gallery 2022 Calendar, for the month of August....

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From the gallery back catalogue we are delighted to have sold Densie White's beautiful watercolour landscape, Pirongia that was originally shown in the Waikato Watercolourist's Exhibition that launched in February of last year. Denise passed away earlier this year. It is wonderful to be connected with Denise though her art, an inspirational legacy....

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Jenni Taris's powerful Totem Woman, tells the story of all those women who have established their own great adventures. This Totem Woman is about to begin her adventures afresh now that she has left the Gallery to continue her escapades....