Artist Ginney Deavoll is creating paintings of huts and raising money for the Backcountry Trust (BCT). 

Each year she chooses a cause that reflects her values, and creates artworks to sell to support their activity. 

Since its inception in 2014, BCT has restored and renovated over 280 huts and 1500km of walking and cycle trails across the motu.

“As a lover of a night in a backcountry hut,  I think the work the trust does to ensure there will always be shelters dotted among our hills is amazing and something worth supporting and celebrating,” Deavoll said.

She loves how each hut has its own story and unique character. Every Sunday on BCT’s Facebook page she releases a small ‘hut-scape’, which is then available for purchase from her website.

Deavoll will also be turning a small hut in the Southern Alps into a work of art later this year, celebrating the cheeky kea.