Tossed by the Wind

Emily Carr is one of Canada’s greatest artists, best known for her paintings of west coast native villages and forest and seashore landscapes. She was fascinated by them. She spent much of her life in First Nations villages, and enjoyed the dark haunting forests, wild beaches, and vast skies of Vancouver Island. She enjoyed her adventures and considered herself to be "the little old lady on the edge of nowhere" because many of her locations were, and still are, in isolated locations. Amazing artworks resulted from her repeated forest forays.

In the early 1930s, after travelling to New York, Carr moved from studies to large conceptual paintings. These works reveal a transformation in her art, from a preoccupation with Aboriginal subjects to conceptual explorations in which the forest and trees become armatures upon which she explores more abstract motifs. 

P.S. Big part of Emily Carr's work is focused on the beauty of the natural Canadian landscape and the impact of Canadian industries on the environment.