http://www.wsgalleryandgifts.com/blog/ The latest Blog feeds from www.wsgalleryandgifts.com en-us Sat, 30 May 2026 05:24:54 +1200 Rocketspark http://www.wsgalleryandgifts.com/blog/post/165075/sold/ Who says 'soft pastel', says gallery artist, Bernadette Ballantyne. Her exquisite use of the medium is well establshed. An artist, award winner, teacher and seller of Keeping in Line 'in the kitchen', from The Art of Hamilton Gardens exhibition contiunues and cements her standing as a gallery favourite.... Thu, 21 May 2026 12:53:16 +1200 http://www.wsgalleryandgifts.com/blog/#post165075 http://www.wsgalleryandgifts.com/blog/post/164728/sold/ Sold from The Art of Hamilton Gardens, is Sandra Turner-Barlow's distinct watercolour composition, A Bridge in Time that references the flow of water and the passage of time through the gardens.... Tue, 19 May 2026 13:27:06 +1200 http://www.wsgalleryandgifts.com/blog/#post164728 http://www.wsgalleryandgifts.com/blog/post/164643/sold/ Aston Greathead's watercolour Walter Peak, Lake Wakatipu on display during The Art of Hamilton Gardens exhibition has been snapped up by discerning art buyers who appreciate this New Zealand landscape form.... Sun, 17 May 2026 13:38:19 +1200 http://www.wsgalleryandgifts.com/blog/#post164643 http://www.wsgalleryandgifts.com/blog/post/164642/sold/ From The Art of Hamilton Gardens exhibition is an intriguing composition from gallery artist Sandra Turner-Barlow, entitled Te Parapara that features the Maori garden produce in the form of Kumara. In this case, interactively holding in place a paint brush that gleams in the soft light. As John Constable and Camille Pissarro frequently painted vegetable gardens and the changing seasons, so Turner-Barlow envisages the gardens and their produce as they record and reflect the passage of time.... Sun, 17 May 2026 12:21:36 +1200 http://www.wsgalleryandgifts.com/blog/#post164642 http://www.wsgalleryandgifts.com/blog/post/164522/sold/ Cole Raithby's grand narrative contribution to The Art of Hamilton Gardens exhibition is to imagine the Gardens as a dance. Indeed the sold piece, Dancing Grass, by way of pointillism and van Gogh curvature, creates just such a powerful impression.... Wed, 13 May 2026 14:18:40 +1200 http://www.wsgalleryandgifts.com/blog/#post164522 http://www.wsgalleryandgifts.com/blog/post/164460/sold/ Few visitors to the gallery have passed the composition, Lakeside Lingering at Turtle Lake, by gallery artist, Rosanne Croucher, without stopping and marvelling at the light creating a translucent effect through the rose petals. No surprise that this highly vibrant painting was going to be planted elsewhere. In this case to a new home recently acquired by a couple who intend to replace their previous art collection with gallery paintings. Quite right too.... Mon, 11 May 2026 17:30:53 +1200 http://www.wsgalleryandgifts.com/blog/#post164460 http://www.wsgalleryandgifts.com/blog/post/164456/sold/ Gallery artist, Rosanne Croucher's compositions have attracted much commentary from gallery visitors - now transpired into the sale of Lakeside Lingering at Turtle Lake from The Art of Hamilton Gardens exhibition.   Working in oils her exhibition pieces, present an atmospheric realism technique that captures the magical mood provided by nature. Her compositions communicate the munificence that the Gardens display.... Mon, 11 May 2026 17:12:59 +1200 http://www.wsgalleryandgifts.com/blog/#post164456 http://www.wsgalleryandgifts.com/blog/post/164455/sold/ Much admired and now sold, Michele Rumney's composition entitled, 'The Visitors', from the exhibition, The Art of Hamilton Gardens.Michele Rumney’s painting technique is a strong pastiche drawn from French artist Andre Derain's world of 1910 and the birth of the Fauvism movement that used strong gestural lines to imply both structure and content of composition. In this exhibition Rumney extends these lines to appear as the actual content that defines the subject matter. This can be seen i... Mon, 11 May 2026 16:54:58 +1200 http://www.wsgalleryandgifts.com/blog/#post164455 http://www.wsgalleryandgifts.com/blog/post/164236/sold/ The final composition of Carmel Van Der Hoeven's hexaptych, Six Easy Pieces in The Art of Hamilton Gardens exhibition, has been sold. The Chinese Scholar's Garden, much admired and the subject of many inquiries in both New Zealand and Australia will now be replanted in Hamilton.... Wed, 06 May 2026 13:11:37 +1200 http://www.wsgalleryandgifts.com/blog/#post164236 http://www.wsgalleryandgifts.com/blog/post/164186/sold/ The calm of the Japanese Garden in The Art of Hamilton Gardens exhibition has been supremely captured by watercolourist, and gallery artist Chris Greenslade in the now purchased Japanese Garden of Contemplation II.... Tue, 05 May 2026 12:21:10 +1200 http://www.wsgalleryandgifts.com/blog/#post164186