Winds of Heaven

An impressionistic exploration of the spirit that informed the solitary life of one of Canadas most celebrated and irrepressible painters Emily Carr began painting in an era when women didnt at an age when most people shouldnt traveling to remote locations that few professional adventurers chose to go Not only did she adopt the painting techniques of modernism when such ideas were considered dangerous Carr chronicled the extraordinary art and culture of native peoples who were invisible to the dominant culture