Lucy Julia Barns Scarvell (23 January 1904 - 17 February 1985) was a New Zealand artist.
[4] After Scarvell's family fell on tough times, she and her sister Mary were forced to work.
[5] In May 1936 Scarvell and two painter friends, Rita Angus and Louise Henderson, travelled by train to the small high country community of Cass, 120 km north-west of Christchurch.
They stayed there for ten days at the Mountain Biological Station owned by Canterbury University College, painting and sketching the surrounding countryside.
[1] Scarvell died on 17 February 1985, and she is buried in Waimairi Cemetery, Christchurch with her father and mother.