Emily Carr’s Art

Emily Carr’s art is autobiographical not in the superficial sense that it follows her movements and relates to periods of her life, nor as a reflection of her changing moods. It is the nature of some art to find its sources in the deepest wellspring of the self, and so it was with Carr and her mature work, once she had learned to make that mysterious connection with her intense psychic energy. She was one of those artist who live themselves out in their work.

– Doris Shadbolt, The Art of Emily Carr (1979)