Michelle Bellamy

Lady Emily Hut is found up on the mountainside in the Cass Valley in the Glenmore Station on the western side of Lake Tekapo and has been purpose built for ski touring and hiking. It is a wonderful place to explore, with gentle basins and expansive views. From Lady Emily Hut the outlook up and down the Cass Valley are spectacular, the braided Cass river winds its way down the open valley past vast scree slopes and tussock clad mountains.

To visit Lady Emily Hut you need to be given access from Will & Emily at the Glenmore Station, from there you can walk, bike or 4WD up the valley flat to a lower hut called Memorial Hut. From Memorial Hut visitors need to cross a small but brutally cold river that will chill your leg bones thoroughly, and then follow a steep route up a spur on the true right of the waterfall for about an hour. Once you are over the top you will be rewarded with the most spectacular views of the hut and surrounds and of course the beautiful valley views.

Image Size: 500 x 800 mm
Paper Size: 610 x 900 mm
Limited edition of: 150

This archival quality print is made using the highest quality museum grade pigment inks. The inks and papers are designed to last for generations. Each fine art reproduction is colour proofed by Mi…

Michelle Bellamy is a contemporary painter living in Nelson, specialising in capturing the New Zealand landscape with exquisite detail.

An avid mountaineer, Bellamy takes inspiration from exploring the corners and nooks of New Zealand’s lakes and surrounding inhabited landscapes. Back in the studio she creates meticulously detailed large and mid-scale paintings in acrylic on board. Her captivating geographic representations register and acknowledge a human presence on the landscape through the inclusion of familiar features such as South Island cribs and huts, set amongst exquisitely rendered tussock grasses and native flora. Bellamy’s precision brushwork and skilful layering of colour serves to intensify the clarity of New Zealand’s natural light and beauty.

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