SOLD!!
Yong Ming Liu's beautiful landscape, Autumn Dawn at a Viewing Terrace, a watercolour on rice paper has just been sold from the Chinese Exhibition, Inheritance & Innovation. ...
July 7, 2021SOLD!
The Pink Lotus claborate style composition by gallery artists Jing Liu, has been associated with many adjectives, from 'gorgeous' to 'wow' and beyond. Now sold to an ecstatic art collector....
July 2, 2021SOLD!
From the Permanent Collection, The Koi Carp Catch by gallery artist Bernadette Parsons has always attracted admiration from visitors to the gallery. Now sold to a new local collector who is excited to be adding this to their growing collection....
June 30, 2021SOLD!
This outstanding landscape, Towards Te Aroha by gallery artist Kirsten McIntosh demonstrates her ability to integrate detailed foreground with layers of intricate landscape. The central contours quickly become manifest due to the yellow accent that is the first colour to hit the retina. The composition reveals a thin seascape topped in contrast with azure blue sky. In this way the painting works from bottom to top presenting a sense of proximity, distance and expanse. ...
June 24, 2021SOLD!
Another of Yong Ming Liu's spectacular (Qian Jiang) landscapes has just sold from the gallery. Looking for a Pavilion on Summer Day, is a wonderful composition resplendent of traditional Chinese painting, now in the hands of a local collector....
June 14, 2021SOLD!
Dejin Lu's artistry continues to attract buyers at the Welcome Swallow Gallery. His exquisite composition in the Chinese light expressive style, Xieyi, The Lone Tree of Lake Wanaka, has been sold to a Dunedin collector....
June 12, 2021New gallery addition
Amy Krauss The Orchard Watercolour 130x165mm Exhibited: Royal West of England Academy 1919 Private Collection Amy Krauss was born in Bristol to a German father and an English mother. She studied at the Royal West of England Academy, becoming a founding member of The Clifton Arts Club. Her artistic career included painting in both oils and watercolours and latterly as a potter. From 1904-1914, Krauss typically exhibited landscape paintings. Prior to this, between 1908 and 1913, she studied a...
June 12, 2021New in the gallery
Katherine Church June Evening in Buckinghamshire Watercolour 320x520mm Private Collection Katharine “Kitty” Duff Church was a British neo-romantic painter. She was born in Highgate in north London, the daughter of barrister Harold Church, who was killed in World War I whilst serving as a Captain in the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry. She studied art at the Brighton School of Art, at the Royal Academy Schools between 1930 and 1933, and then at the Slade School of Fine Art in 1...
June 12, 2021SOLD!
Spring Iris, by gallery artist Dejin Lu has attracted considerable admiration since the opening of the exhibition, Chinese Art: Inheritance & Innovation. Now sold to a local collector....
June 8, 2021Rita Angus @ Welcome Swallow
The framed poster of the 2008 Te Papa Rita Angus exhibition, Life & Vision, sits alongside her exquisite watercolour composition, Wainui mid-summer Banks Peninsula (1943) This painting was part of the exhibition seen here courtesy of a private collection (N.F.S. ). Also on display is a rare 1984 first day cover of Rita Angus stamps....
June 5, 2021SOLD!
Lake Ngaroto Wetland a superb watercolour from gallery artist Martin Necas, captures billowing cloud atop a calm reflective lake, overseen by Mount Pirongia in the background. Now sold....
May 29, 2021SOLD!
Since the opening of Chinese Art; Inheritance and Innovation on 14th May, over a thousand people have visited the gallery to enjoy this unique exhibition. In less than 2 weeks 50% of the paintings have been sold. The exquisite composition, Light Fragrance by artist Jing Liu is the latest to attract a red dot....
May 27, 2021SOLD!
First seen in the exhibition, Joy of Humanity: People & Place, this evocative impressionist work by gallery artist Juliet Roper, has been bought by a discerning local collector. ...
May 27, 2021SOLD!
At Rest, by gallery artist Gavin Smith is a beautiful watercolour composition from the Permanent Collection that demonstrates Smith's artistry in representing harbour scenes from around the world. Now sold....
May 26, 2021SOLD!
The Chinese Art: Inheritance & Innovation exhibition, has brought many new people to the gallery who spend lengthy contemplative moments reviewing the fast selling compositions not typically seen in New Zealand galleries. Jing Liu's splendidly delicate light expressive watercolour, Southern Hills is the latest painting to attract a red dot....
May 25, 2021SOLD!
Toni Kingstone's acrylic / resin compositions continue to attract buyers. Mining for Gold, with rich textural contrasts, including strong reflective properties, has now found its new home....
May 24, 2021SOLD!
Dejin's Lu's practice as a Chinese light expressive style artist is generating much admiration and purchasing at the Chinese Art: Inheritance & Innovation exhibition. Spring Magnolia & Kereru is a significant composition as it mixes the light expressive style with a specific New Zealand subject. Now sold....
May 21, 2021SOLD!
With four sales in less than 24 hours at the Welcome Swallow Gallery exhibition, Chinese Art: Inheritance & Innovation, Yong Ming Liu from the Chinese mainland has established a firm New Zealand footprint. Horseback Riding in the Spring Mountains is a magnificent watercolour on rice paper backed onto silk composition that truly represents the pinnacle of Chinese art, the highest form of painting across the taxanomic themes of Flower and Birds, Figures and Landscapes. ...
May 15, 2021In Our Memory
Denise White, who passed peacefully at home on 14th May 2021, was a wonderful artist and a gallery stalwart. Her art was much loved and sold often at Welcome Swallow. She presented with the Waikato Watercolourists at their special exhibition in February last year, writing for the Catalogue, "the sea, the river and dairy country as well as the plentiful flora, give a vast array of subjects to paint". Such was the bounty of Denise's art and life. It is no surprise that she loved en plein air...
May 15, 2021SOLD!
Jenni Taris's powerful Totem Woman, tells the storey 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....
May 13, 2021SOLD!
It is perhaps fitting that when days with cooling wispy breezes bring strange premonitions of Summer's final end that Martin Necas's reflective rendition, Autumn River Bank should find its way into a local collection. Sold on this day....
May 8, 2021SOLD!
Sold from the Permanent Collection, Sky Lines, by gallery artist Martin Necas is a rich watercolour composition that takes a common urban setting and infuses it with cloud-filled sunset colours as a backdrop to silhouetted trees and vegetation. ...
May 6, 2021The Artful Four: 40 shots
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May 5, 2021Chloe Sutherland, Peoples' Choice Award Winner
Winner of the People's Choice Award from the schools' competition, The Artful Four: 40 shots, is Chloe Sutherland's beautiful watercolour, Tui with Kowhai. Congratulations to her and Hamilton Girls High. Chloe will now be presenting at the upcoming Gallery Winter exhibition entitled, Winter Bright....
May 3, 2021SOLD!
Sold from the Permanent Collection to a local collector is the acrylic / resin composition Distant Moon. In recent times Toni Kingstone has attracted significant interest in this aspect of her art. Both loved and bought....
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