Michelle Bellamy

Lake Pukaki is the largest of three almost parallel alpine lakes running north–south along the northern edge of the Mackenzie Basin in the South Island of New Zealand. The lake is a very distinctive blue colour, a result of fine rock particles from the glaciers.

Image Size: 500 x 1000 mm
Paper Size: 550 x 1050 mm
Limited edition of: 150

This print is titled, numbered, dated and signed by the artist. Printed on acid-free, museum quality paper for highest age resistance and using high-quality, lightfast aqueous-based pigment inks…

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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