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For those of you who don’t know I’m an artist who loves spending time outdoors and soaking up the natural environment. Over the past 2 years I have been working on a painting of Lady Emily Hut in the Cass in the Glenmore Station near Lake Tekapo.
Built by the Murray family the hut is situated above the main valley on a ridge with expansive views all around. The snowy peaks in the background tower to 2433m and feed into fresh streams that flow on either side of the ridge that the hut sits on and eventually water fall over the edge to the valley floor.
When I visited the Cass it was rainy, claggy and even lightly snowed one night, but one evening the clouds suddenly lifted, the sun intermittently peaked out, I was off. I made a mad dash to Lady Emily and was chasing the setting sun up the ridge as the clouds blew away. So here the painting is finally completed.
Lady Emily in the Cass, Glenmore Station, New Zealand
The walk begun with a run, well actually more like a jog, in boots. I dropped everyone at the start of the Waston Creek Route then drove back to the end of the Jameson Ridge Track, parked and jogged back. The track started as a grassy track, out in the open unrelenting sun, blasted by the wind and being directed on possibly the longest route around the Ella Stations Hop fields in the hottest...
Did you really like my newest painting 'Endless Evening at Lake Alexandrina'? If so you can now warm up your home with the golden hues of Autumn with a the fine art reproduction made from the original. With six sizes available to fit your space perfectly and capturing each
detailed brushstroke, the art print is just stunning in each size. Endless Evening portrays...
After quite some time I have completed 'Endless Evening at Lake Alexandrina'. Having visited the lake many times, this long calm evening pictured in the painting has been the most memorable. I arrived late on a balmy autumn afternoon having never visited before, and it was simply stunning, not a breath of wind with the last golden leaves grasping onto the tree branches. Time seemed eternal as the sun slowly sank behind the hills. More visits over the years...