Marilyn Jones | Emily Carr Chronicler

Emily Carr and Edythe Hembroff: A Friendship That Shaped a Legacy

Published: 8 October, 2025
Written by Marilyn Jones

When Emily Carr met the young artist Edythe Hembroff in 1930, Carr was nearing the end of her painting years. Her health was fragile and money scarce, yet her artistic vision remained fierce and some of her best artwork was yet to come. In Edythe, she found a kindred spirit: intelligent, observant, and deeply sympathetic to her struggles. Their friendship, part mentorship and part creative partnership, became one of the most meaningful of Emily’s…

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The House That Emily Built: The House of All Sorts

Published: 4 October, 2025
Written by Jacqueline Pearce

In many cities around the world, the homes of famous artists and writers are saved and cherished. The artist Frida Kahlo’s “Blue House” in Mexico City, for example, is now a museum open to the public. As is Claude Monet’s home and garden in Giverny, France. In Victoria, Canada, you can visit Carr House, the birthplace and childhood home of beloved artist, Emily Carr, who painted scenes of Indigenous villages and the wild forests of…

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Joe Fafard, Emily Carr and Her Friends

Published: 28 September, 2025
Written by Marilyn Jones

The bronze Emily Carr sculpture created by Edmonton sculptor Barbara Patterson installed outside the Empress Hotel in Victoria in 2010 is not the first statue created in her honour. That distinction belongs to Joe Fafard—a celebrated Saskatchewan artist and longtime admirer of Carr’s work. By then, he had created two different versions of Emily Carr sculptures, one of Emily on her horse in 2003 and another in 2005 with her off her horse with…

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