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Emily, had a reverence and fascination for the First Nations peoples of the British Columbia coast.

As the most famous female artist of her time and a Canadian icon today, she has admirers in every country, all potential visitors to Chemainus. She was one of Canada’s foremost woman artists of her
 day and during the last few years her fame has grown as the greatest and most loved BC artist.

The board  is passionate about telling the Emily Carr story and her commitment to preserving First Nations art via her paintings, as most of you know, she is a world famous, female, BC Artist who lived on Vancouver Island. In fact, she was born in Victoria on December 13, 1871. In 1924, Carr visited the Chemainus Valley and painted Chemainus Bay, 1924-25.

One of our first mural artists, Paul Marcano, said it best he wrote: “Well, looks like that Emily Carr idea is going to unfold sooner than I thought. I get a pang of nostalgia for losing the exclusivity of the Chemainus historic theme, however 25 years has certainly covered the subject and this is a revitalizing concept in itself so I can see it is good evolution for the town. In some ways, it may be the next step in artistic appreciation, away from the ‘practical’ purpose of art as historical representation towards a finer more in depth appreciation of art for art sake. Emily Carr being a naturalist will add a nice bread basket of imagery for embedding the forest industry theme of the current Chemainus murals”.   

Emily once said, “Indian people and their art touched me deeply”. Her work reflected her interest in First Nations culture, as well as the forest landscapes and skies of the British Columbia coast.

She was repeatedly told that the West Coast was not paintable and the forest was monotonous.  She was fascinated by the First Nations villages and their totem poles. They revealed to her that these villages had an amazing, compelling and dramatic artistic achievement. They had, in effect, a great cultural heritage that was not appreciated or respected by the settler population of her day.   She was very struck by the First Nations’ respect for nature, their sense of environment and living presences, that objects and animals all had a spirit that had to be respected.

In 1927, following an exhibit of 65 pieces of her works of art, the National Gallery in Ottawa started buying a number of her paintings. It was then that the world discovered Emily Carr for preserving the Indian Art and they realized that her work was a distinguished visual image of Western Canada – west coast art.  At that stage, she was 57 years old, and she had struggled a good deal until that point. Emily was deeply moved by the work of the Group of Seven, whose works were similar to her own in its vivid interpretations of wilderness and landscape. Lawren Harris told her in 1928, “YOU ARE ONE OF US”, welcoming her into the ranks of Canada’s leading modernists. By the way:
The Festival of Mural board does not make any final commitments to mural projects until the funds have been raised.

co sponsorship of the April 23 2011 -  “Skidigate Eagle” installation on top of our Emily Carr # 2

Mural and arts Sculpture.