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Lady Emily in the Cass

January 01, 2024

Lady Emily in the Cass
Happy New Year everyone! I hope you are excited for what 2024 may bring and are planning lots of exciting adventures!
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
Original painting on board
By Michelle Bellamy
1200 x 800mm
Completed 2023
https://www.bellamygallery.co.nz/collections/new-paintings/products/lady-emily-in-the-cass

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