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.