Winds of Heaven is an impressionistic exploration of the spirit that informed the solitary life of one of Canada’s most celebrated and irrepressible painters. It is a lyrical, luminescent and entertaining impression of the life of Emily Carr. She began painting in an era when women didn’t, at an age when most people shouldn’t, travelling to remote locations. Not only did she adopt the painting techniques of modernism, when such ideas were considered dangerous, Carr also chronicled the extraordinary art and culture of the First Nations people of the Northwest Coast who were invisible to the dominant culture.