For most people walking Te Araroa - the 3000-kilometre trail from Cape Reinga in the North to Bluff in the South - just putting one foot in front of the other is enough to think about. But Sarah Adam set herself the extra challenge of doing a small oil painting 'en plein air' every day of the trek. All up, she made 140 paintings and they've just gone on show in an exhibition she calls Late to the Hut. Sarah tells Lynn Freeman she's currently working for the Department of Conservation on the Hen and Chicks Islands in Northland and she's painting what she sees there too. Sarah Adam's new exhibition Late to the Hut has just opened at DEPOT Artspace in Tamaki Makaurau.