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Gallery artist Kirsten McIntosh continues to attract buyers for her sumptuous autumnal  compositions. Sunset Serenade, Rome has only been in the gallery 48 hours, now destined to be relocated. The Romans should be alerted…...

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Gallery artist Hong Cumming continues to attract buyers for her wonderful watercolour compositions. In this case, Te Koutu Domain Cambridge is moving to a new geographical location. Someone should tell the locals…...

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Utterly exquisite. Dawn's Embrace, sold from the Winter Collection 2024, gallery artist, Bernadette Ballantyne's floral composition in soft pastel. More than admired, merely astonished at the artistry and beauty, captured in this special work of art....

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Chris Greenslade has amassed a loyal following for his watercolour style that tends to lead to his work being sold. In this case his Street Talking Priests from the Street Stories exhibition has taken favour with a collector who now has two pieces from this gallery artist....

Extensive coverage of the gallery activities in the Waikato Times

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Gallery artist, Kirsten McIntosh continues to attract buyers. From the Winter Collection 2024, her beautiful oil composition, Whispers of Winter Bloom has been a gallery favourite with many interested viewers. Now sold to a collector, new to the gallery....

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Gallery artist Miranda Caird who is also represented by Fine Art Society, New Zealand , presents a deeply immersive impressionist acrylic composition, Caught in the Headlights II that has now been bought by a new local collector. A proud owner. Quite right too....

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NZ Poppies by gallery artist, Kirsten McIntosh has found a new home;  a Waikato collector who much appreciated the vibrancy of this attractive oil on board composition....

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Having sold five compositions in the gallery that featured the Murray River in Australia, gallery artist, Julie Mello now turns her attention to New Zealand real estate, selling to a local collector, this delightful oil painting, entitled Te Pahu's Pirongia. A gallery favourite, this compelling art work will now see Pirongia mountain moved to a new location....

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Brideshead Revisited by novellist Evelyn WaughPresented by artist, Debra ThompsonBrideshead Revisited was a novel by the English writer Evelyn Waugh, first published in 1945. It follows, from the 1920s to the early 1940s, the life and romances of Charles Ryder, especially his friendship with the Flytes, a family of wealthy English Catholics who live in a palatial mansion, Brideshead Castle. Ryder has relationships with two of the Flytes: Lord Sebastian and Lady Julia. The novel explore...

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Dusky is a powerful expressionist composition of Christchurch, by new gallery artists Gaen, sold from the Welcome Swallow Gallery, Winter Collection 2024. ...

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Expressive abstract art has the advantage of being able to provide the viewer with a sense of movement, anticipation and interpretation. So goes the sale of Juliet Roper’s Inside Looking Out I, that envisages a tree canopy obscuring the visage of sea and sky while leaves, branches and birds criss-cross the unstable field of vision....

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The Welcome Swallow Gallery represents the Fine Art Society of New Zealand, thus enabling the gallery to access the back catalogues of established New Zealand artists. This fine painting by Aston Greathead (1921-2012), Mount Sefton in Autumn, retains a dream-liked quality, made possible by the artist’s use of only 4 colours, a novel method for post-impressionist works from the 1950s. A wonderful example of New Zealand art history....

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The Welcome Swallow Gallery represents the Fine Art Society of New Zealand, thus enabling the gallery to access the back catalogues of established New Zealand artists. This fine painting by Aston Greathead (1921-2012), Old Road to Mt. Cook, Aorangi is a beautiful watercolour resplendent of the manner in which artists in the 1950s and 1960s depicted New Zealand landscapes....

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Morning Frost at Queenstown is a superb  painting by Chris Greenslade, gallery artist and winner of New Zealand’s watercolour painting of the year in 2023. Greenslade uses a masterful watercolour technique that combines intricate detail with a panoramic landscape grand narrative....

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Sold from the Botanica exhibition, Janet Marshall's Karamu is a superb ink an wash illustration of plant life-cycle that underpins the value and beauty of botanical art. ...

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As the artist for several New Zealand stamps, Janet Marshall's botanical compositions have graced the gallery to much admiration. On this occasion, her Coprosma Robusta watercolour is off to be planted in a new artistic garden....

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Intricate and intriguing expressive abstract compositions such as Lorraine Bailey's Indigo Landscape #1 are always enjoyed and purchased by art connoisseurs who forensically review what the gallery has to offer. In this case both buyer and seller were able to reach a consensus ad idem and the watercolour painting has accordingly left the gallery for a new location....

Best Day of the Year

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Unsurprisingly, Bernadette Parsons watercolour compositions often bring comparisons with JMW Turner. Night Rock Pools, sold from the Winter Collection 2024 has drawn such comments of late. Bought by a watercolour artists who marvelled at the  strength and delicacy of this painting....

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Toni Kingstone's resin on acrylic magical realism roundels have always enchanted gallery visitors. On this occasion, the irresistible draw of Purple Rain from the Winter Collection 2024 exhibition has seen this dreamy composition leave the gallery, destined to adorn a new space, its permanent home....

Volunteer's Morning Tea

Volunteers can never be celebrated in excess. ...

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Winter’s Veil is a supreme oil composition presented by gallery artist Kirsten McIntosh at the Winter Collection 2024 exhibition, now sold to a passionate art collector who appreciates the depth of colours and misty lighting that when seen in the gallery, is utterly transfixing. The viewer is invited to experience their own journey of mystery....

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The wonderfully translucent watercolour composition, Plum Blossom from the Winter Collection 2024, by gallery artist Jing Liu is soon to be relocated to a new 'garden'.  Much admired by gallery visitors....

Winter Collection 2024

Our Winter Collection 2024 is now available for viewing! 10th June - 31st August.The exhibition is a veritable smorgasbord of fine art in the form of expressionism, impressionism, magical realism, claborate Chinese styles, botanical, floral and abstract. Eye candy for art lovers one and all. Our brilliant gallery artists are:Bernadette BallantyneHong CummingGaenAston GreatheadToni KingstoneJing LiuKirsten McIntoshBernadette ParsonsJuliet RoperDiana Seavill...