This intimate and intense watercolour offers a missing link for our understanding of how Emily Carr developed her imagery of First Nations culture. In 1993, when I compiled my catalogue of all her paintings and drawings of First Nations villages, I listed the sketch of this subject as ‘lost.’ I...

In many ways, the story of Lilias Torrance Newton - portrait painter, art teacher, abandoned wife and mother - reads like a story of the 1990s. But what seems banal today was exceptional sixty years ago when divorce was frowned upon and married women were not expected to work outside...

Sarah's paintings reflect her capacity to charge 'every tiny experience with an intense emotional ecstasy.' She loved nature and that love is expressed in her work. But she was no slavish imitator. As Lismer remarked of Sarah's work in 1934, 'she has the courage to create landscapes, and not copy...