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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....
May 3, 2021A Gaye Jurisich installation
A Gaye Jurisich installation typically demands your attention. Tracce, one of her well recognized works that is once again available for viewing at the Arts Post, dramatically achieves this distinction. As with her installation, Still, recently seen at the Waikato Museum Te Whare Taonga o Waikato, Tracce makes a bold statement, dominating the room in which it is situated. Similar to some of the larger threaded installations presented by Palestinian artist, Mona Hatoum, Jurisich ta...
April 25, 2021SOLD!
Toni Kingstone's 800mm acrylic and resin roundels continue to attract buyers. Her latest composition Emerald Isle has just been sold to a local collector. It is a powerful piece that carries stunning compositional complexity within the context of an impressionist landscape design. ...
April 24, 2021SOLD!
Holes in my Oranges - Tui, from gallery artist Rebecca Dowman-Ngapo, has sold to a local collector. Typically the Tui is painted posing on Kowhai branches or in flight, but rarely, as in this case, on the ground. Much appreciated and admired this beautifully rendered composition has now taken flight....
April 18, 2021SOLD!
The Schools Competition exhibition, The Artful Four: 40 shots, is off to a splendid, super, stellar start! By Day 2, 14 compositions have already been snapped up! There has been universal praise for the talents of these young artists. Quite right, too....
April 14, 2021SOLD!
Gallery artist Toni Kingstone continues to attract buyers with her acrylic and resin compositions. From the Permanent Collection, Metamorphosis, has recent sold to a local collector. The piece presents a collection of variegated images that together act as a collective tapestry that is infinitely fascinating and beguiling. ...
April 14, 2021SOLD!
In Pathfinders, gallery artist Bernadette Parsons has produced a composition that demonstrates her technical mastery, capturing a vibrant yet delicate cadence. We are invited to walk a pathway that promises intriguing discovery....
April 7, 2021SOLD!
One of the most talked about compositions in the exhibition, Joy of Humanity: People & Place, has been Sunflower Peek, by one of the gallery original artists, Rebecca Dowman Ngapo. Ideally representative of the exhibition theme, this superb watercolour recently sold to a local collector. ...
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