A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things
A personal journey through art and the great mystery of creativity. 20 years after her death, filmmaker Mark Cousins looks at the life and work of Scottish artist Wilhelmina Barns-Graham.
Navigating through a wordless language of colour, new ways of seeing are found. Set against stunning landscapes, this is a love-letter to an imagination that shows a secret code.
The film explores the pivotal 1949 experience atop Switzerland's Grindelwald glacier that reshaped British modernist painter Barns-Graham's artistic perspective for decades to come.
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