Welcome Swallow Gallery & Gifts

Welcome Swallow Gallery & Gifts Welcome Swallow Gallery & Gifts. Not-for-profit, staffed by volunteers, and supporting children leading incredibly tough lives.

Everyone who works in the Gallery and shop, including the Shop Manager, is a volunteer. We receive no salaries; all our time and efforts are donated free. The money that we raise will go directly to children in need. This work is our passion, this is our home. Achieving Change for Children Charitable Trust.

Rosanne Croucher, so Smitten at SunsetFew visitors to the gallery have passed the composition, Lakeside Lingering at Tur...
11/05/2026

Rosanne Croucher, so Smitten at Sunset

Few visitors to the gallery have passed the composition, Lakeside Lingering at Turtle Lake, by gallery artist, Roneanne 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.

Rosanne Croucher
Smitten at Sunset
Oil on Panel
500x400mm
Price: $1800

Rosanne Croucher sells the Pond HouseGallery artist, Rosanne Croucher's compositions have attracted much commentary from...
11/05/2026

Rosanne Croucher sells the Pond House

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.

Rosanne Croucher
Lakeside Lingering
at Turtle Lake
Oil on Panel
500x400mm
Price: $1800

Michele Rumney sells the Visitor's CentreMuch admired and now sold, Michele Rumney's composition entitled, 'The Visitors...
11/05/2026

Michele Rumney sells the Visitor's Centre

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 in the depiction of 'The Visitors' where the composition presents dramatic immersive depth.

Michele Rumney
‘The Visitors’
Watercolour, Alcohol Marker on Paper
300x420mm
Price: $950

Carmel Van Der Hoeven sells the Chinese Scholar's GardenThe final composition of Carmel Van Der Hoeven's hexaptych, Six ...
09/05/2026

Carmel Van Der Hoeven sells the Chinese Scholar's Garden

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.

Carmel Van Der Hoeven
The Chinese Scholar’s Garden
Acrylic on Canvas
1000x1000mm
Price: $7750

Celebrating one of the true greatsD A V I DA T T E N B O R O U G HDavid celebrates his hundredth birthday on 8th May 202...
09/05/2026

Celebrating one of the true greats

D A V I D
A T T E N B O R O U G H

David celebrates his hundredth birthday on 8th May 2026.

This painting, by gallery artist, Debra Thompson gloriously celebrates the sheer exuberance and iconic status that David Attenborough enjoys.

Still active, Attenborough has brought the natural world to our screens and collective consciousness like no-one else. Uniquely admired and loved the world over he strides across the pantheon of broadcasters presenting the best of humanity. A man of infinite faculty and grace.

David Attenborough is an irreplaceable global leviathan whose standing and status is untouchable.

Chris Greenslade sells the Japanese GardensThe calm of the Japanese Garden in The Art of Hamilton Gardens exhibition has...
09/05/2026

Chris Greenslade sells the Japanese Gardens

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.

Chris Greenslade
Japanese Garden of Contemplation II
Watercolour, 230x490mm
Price: $1250

Bernadette Parsons sells the Mansfield GardensGallery artist, Bernadette Parsons continues to attract buyers for her wat...
03/05/2026

Bernadette Parsons sells the Mansfield Gardens

Gallery artist, Bernadette Parsons continues to attract buyers for her watercolour impressionist compositions. On this occasion, Mansfield Gardens from The Art of Hamilton Gardens exhibition has been relocated, uplifted by an art teacher who very much appreciated the atmospheric feel of the painting.

Bernadette Parsons
Mansfield Garden
Watercolour
600x500mm
Price: $1800

Aleesha Winters sells out...Curiosity and Colour at the Indian Garden, by gallery artist Aleesha Winter has found a home...
03/05/2026

Aleesha Winters sells out...

Curiosity and Colour at the Indian Garden, by gallery artist Aleesha Winter has found a home with a sunflower lover who was enchanted with the 'focus' of the composition. It's wonderful to see an artist selling out their pieces in an exhibition, especially when the artist has not been previously seen at the gallery. The Art of Hamilton Gardens exhibition is the better for it.

In her own words; 'There are many doors at the gardens. Many are a deliberate part of the garden installation and can be oversized, animated or have a secret garden behind it. Noting this, the exceptionally curious visitor may find themself wondering curiously at every door they come across. Can I open this door? Where will it lead?'

Aleesha Winter
Curiosity and Colour at the Indian Garden
Watercolour, 280x355mm
Price: $900

Cole Raithby's Floral Dance...Cole Raithby's watercolour composition, Floral Dance, has sold to a local collector who wa...
03/05/2026

Cole Raithby's Floral Dance...

Cole Raithby's watercolour composition, Floral Dance, has sold to a local collector who was intrigued by the notion of The Art of Hamilton Gardens exhibition being interpreted as a form of dancing.

According to the gallery exhibition plate, 'the best way to describe Cole Raithby’s art is as a continuous dialogue with the impressionist painters of the late 19th and early 20th century. His three pieces in this exhibition are a distinct pastiche with the early work of Monet and more specifically the pointillism of Georges Seurat. This technique is used to highlight the overarching impression that the grand narrative of the gardens can best be appreciated through the delicate aggregation of grasses and floral representation. A dance'.

Cole Raithby
Floral Dance
Watercolour
210x300mm
Price: $850

Carmel Van Der Hoeven sells The Egyptian GardenAnd so gallery artist Carmel Van Der Hoeven, in selling the Ancient Egypt...
03/05/2026

Carmel Van Der Hoeven sells The Egyptian Garden

And so gallery artist Carmel Van Der Hoeven, in selling the Ancient Egyptian Garden has sold five of her Six Easy Pieces that form part of The Art of Hamilton Gardens exhibition. This particular painting will see a part of ancient Egypt relocated to Auckland.

Carmel Van Der Hoeven
The Ancient Egyptian Garden
Acrylic on Canvas
1000x1000mm
Price: $7750

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378 Grey Street
Hamilton
3216

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