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Gallery artist Julie Mello uses a florid intuitive impressionist style to capture her subject. This is very evident in her composition, Waikato Life Blood, sold to American expats from Pennsylvania, who fell in love with it at first sight. The Waikato River now left the Resident Artists' Gallery, set to flow elsewhere....

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Returning to her watercolour roots, gallery artists Sandra Turner-Barlow presents a sublime botanical art composition, English Oak , sold from the Resident Artist's gallery....

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Sold from the Structure & Place exhibition, the remarkable edifice of the Public Trust building, Wellington by gallery artist Hong Cumming. This beautifully structured intimately technical composition was uplifted by a Wellington firm, but will stay in the gallery for the duration of the exhibition thus enabling the public enjoy this painting....

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Christchurch is the last painting in the series, the Audi Five Cities Showcase and was possibly the most challenging. I wanted the composition to recognize the tragedy of recent events that included enormous physical and emotional separation. Yet this work also needed to capture a unified desire to move forward to overcome the fractures caused by nature and man.The stylized buildings that dominate the painting represent the strength of the people of Christchurch standing together, while the Al N...

Audi Five Cities Showcase: Moving Towards by Sandra Turner-Barlow - media coverage

Gallery Curator, Clive Gilson was interviewed by Jesse Mulligan regarding the upcoming Turner-Barlow Showcase. Click below to hear the interview:https://www.rnz.co.nz/audio/player?audio_id=2018904796...

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Sold from the Waikato Watercolourists III exhibition, the magnificently moody watercolour composition, Coromandel, by gallery artist Bernadette Parsons. A visual loss to the gallery a wonderful gain for the buyer who will use the painting to bring fine art to her office....

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New gallery artist, Chris Greenslade has quickly established his work @ Welcome Swallow with Winter Morning at Gordonton, Waikato, finding an avid buyer for his watercolour style....

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Gallery artist Diana Seavill continues to attract buyers for her intriguing abstract compositions. In this case, it is the Sea Bed  that has been moved to another property, beyond its time in the gallery where it was much appreciated by many. Sold to one....

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Sold from the Resident Artist’s Gallery, the charcoal composition, Nocturnal Whispers by gallery artist Hong Cumming, has attracted considerable attention. While viewing, there is, at some point, the shock realization that as we are observing the owl, it is actually the owl who is observing us. Intensely. It’s a ‘must buy’ item. ...

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Sold from this year's Waikato Watercolourists III exhibition, Lemonade Fruit, by Italian gallery artist, Elena Brambilla. As a watercolour botanical artist Brambilla is able to demonstrate discrete, intense mastery of her subject. This fruit has surely been picked!...

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The Welcome Swallow Gallery announces it's next major event - the Audi Five Cities Showcase: Moving Towards, by gallery artist Sandra Turner-Barlow.Four of the city paintings have been seen and sold from the gallery in the last two years. Christchurch, unseen until the launch event will be centre-stage as for the first time all paintings are returning to the gallery from private collections. Sponsored by Audi New Zealand this is the first time that an artist has captured a socio-political interp...

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Elena Brambilla has attracted much interest in her residency at the Ward St. gallery, While working on new compositions has sold these two beautiful botanical watercolours, Jasmine Leaf and Three Rosehips....

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Gallery artist, Stacey Moore has produced two very attractive abstract compositions, namely Milky Way and In the Stillness, now sold from the Resident Artists’ Gallery to a local collector. The happy couple will stay together, now destined for the South Island....

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Hong Cumming's fabulous watercolour, Bad Hair Day from the Waikato Watercolourists III exhibition has taken flight and will now, hopefully, finally settle down in its new home to be....

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Rebecca Dowman-Ngapo's watercolours have been gallery favourites across all exhibitions that feature this medium. The Winter Collection 2023 is no exception. Foreshadowing warmer times ahead, Herald of Spring presents bursts of kowhai yellow blossoms that grasp the attention of the viewer, And byers. This one now firmly in the latter column.,...

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Gallery artists Kirsten McIntosh continues to attract buyers to her compositions that demonstrate mastery of the use of light, as seen  once again with the mystical landscape, Whisper of Light painting from the 2023 Winter Collection....

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Audrey was never going to languish on the gallery walls... From the moment Debra Thompson's mixed media composition entered the Resident Artists' Gallery, it was only a matter of time before this elegant icon would find a home....

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Juliet Roper's Same But Different series continues to attract buyers. On this occasion it is woman #1 (of 9) that has moved to another place and space. Life's journey continues....

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Gallery artist Juliet Roper has produced a wonderful expressionist composition entitled Bird Song, now sold from the 2023 Winter Collection....

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Gallery artist Toni Kingstone continues to develop the New Zealand rebirth of the Magical Realism movement that existed between the first and second world wars. Using acrylic and resin, Toni weaves relatable stories in magical settings. These narratives find favour with gallery visitors, especially when her stories resonate with their own experiences. This can result in remarkable rapid sales. ...

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Stephen Milner's inspiring photographic canvases continue to attract awe and amazement from those visiting the gallery. Sold today the Punakaiki Sculptures, from the Winter Collection 2023....

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Sold from the Winter Collection 2023, is the sumptuous composition Homecoming Part I by gallery artist, Charlotte Giblin. This impressionist painting has fascinated gallery visitors, finally culminating in it joining a New Zealand art collector's extensive portfolio....

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Toni Kingstone continues her development and regeneration of the inter-war period magical realism genre applying it to Maori legend. This magnificent 1.2m roundel from the 2023 Winter Collection will soon be on its way to an Auckland collection.Te Wai Paunamu“Poutini, the guardian of Pounamu and a taniwha (a giant water being), snatched a beautiful Maori woman. Waitaiki, from the North Island.He brought her south eventually to the Arahura River but her husband Tamaahua gave chase. Fearing Tama...