I am super excited to add this new limited edition print the my backcountry collection - Two Tarns near Lake Sylvester, Kahurangi National Park. I’m sure that a lot of you who venture out into the wilderness have explored this unique plateau above the Cobb Reservoir dotted with tarns and beautiful vegetation. Only around a 2hr walk (maybe a little longer with young children) Lake Sylvester and surrounds can be explored as a day trip or as an overnighter at Sylvester Hut, with great views to the Wharepapa/Arthur Range beyond the Cobb Reservior.
This fine art reproduction is available in 4 sizes on your choice of stock and is is individually signed, dated and numbered at the base with edition number and title.
St Arnaud Range is very easily accessed from below, in fact so much so that I took my kid’s along the range recently to explore one of the places I find most beautiful. Here is the route that we took along the range and down Powder Valley. Also some...
Not much sleep was had sausaged between two kids that flung their arms into my head all night long and with a full moon lighting up the tent, but I emerged well rested and to a most spectacular and still morning. A few of us wandered around exploring the plateau while others stayed cocooned inside while the first fingers of sun...
After many seemingly endless weeks painting in the studio and in the middle of the school holidays before the first winter snow, the perfect weather window approached. Boots, packs and gear were scattered throughout the house half packed and ready to go, however I was still only half committed. The looming dread of listening to the kids 7 & 8 fight, whinge and moan while I carried over a third of my body weight up 1100 vertical meters...