My Top Eight – Paintings With Poppies

Over the years I have created a number of paintings with red poppies featured in the piece. In Canada, Scotland and England, red poppies signify Remembrance Day and often conjure memories and thoughts of loved ones who served on this day. Poppies are also seen in the Rocky mountains in late Spring and early summer, one of many spring wildflowers you can spot from roadside and mountain trail vantage points. While big red poppies with black centres are the most beautiful and common, you can also see large pink, blue and white poppies strewn throughout wildflower fields. The most common poppy is a wild poppy of orange, seen all over western Canada in the spring and often along highways and city garden plots. I love poppies they are proud flowers, with very substantial stalks and centers, with the most delicate tissue like petals that are transparent at times when sunlight filters through. They do not last long, but they are significant and stunning flowers.

In addition to being a strikingly beautiful flower with medicinal properties, the poppy is a plant steeped in symbolism. From darker themes such as death and war to hopes of peace, luxurious living, and imagination, the poppy represents many aspects of the human experience. Poppies contain many opiates, including codeine, morphine, and thebaine. While these substances can, of course, be harmful when consumed outside of medicinal applications, they are also effective pain relief agents and can induce sleep while settling the nerves. While many people instinctively associate the red poppy with peace as well as death because hope for a peaceful future seems a natural response to the destruction of war, the reinforcement of the poppy’s symbolism of peace has gained traction in recent years. I often associate poppies with imagination and dreaming, for me the dreamy quality comes from a scene in the Wizard of Oz where Dorothy falls asleep in a filed of poppies. No matter your connection to this magical flower, you cannot deny it’s delicate beauty, no matter the shade. Here are eight paintings with poppies.

Paintings With Poppies

Poppies For Louise, 2011 Brandy Saturley

 

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I’ll Carry That Weight, 2020 Brandy Saturley

 

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Say a Little Prayer, painting of Remembrance Day poppy on jean jacket, 2024, Brandy Saturley

 

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Dreaming in The Colours of Eh, 2014 Brandy Saturley

 

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A Cup for Louise, 2013 Brandy Saturley

 

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Golden Ram, 2011 Brandy Saturley

 

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Remember Us, acrylic on canvas, 2014 – Brandy Saturley

 

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Freedom Canoe with Poppies, 2015 Brandy Saturley

Seven paintings featuring scarlet red poppies. All very symbolic paintings, they bring memories, reminders, joy and peace. These paintings tell imaginative stories using the symbol of the poppy.

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11 Canoe Paintings from Canada

What better way to explore the great outdoors in Canada than by canoe. These 11 canoe paintings express how synonymous canoes are with Canada. The most popular colour of canoe being ruby red, and sometimes green with interior of golden wood hulls and repetitious patterns. These canoes glisten in the sunshine and invite the viewer to take a paddle daily, without leaving the house or office. From glacial lakes, to famous river runs and even open seas, Canadians love their canoes.

Poppies for Louise – painting of red canoe with red poppies in the foreground, on Lake Louise in Banff, Alberta.

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Sunrise Portage – two people on a grand portage carrying a red canoe named Love Me Tender

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Freedom Canoe – a green canoe filled with red poppies called Freedom on the open sea on Remembrance Day

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351 Steps – a Canadian outdoorsman takes a lunch break while his green canoe for exploring sits parked in the background

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Complementary Canoes – two canoes of red and green with pop art outlines of reflections on the water

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Canoe View – Overhead view of a wooden hulled canoe with Canadian flag paddle

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Ride My Wake – a lone blonde paddler wearing HBC bikini bottoms, paddles across Lake Louise to the glacier

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We Can Fit in My Canoe – an explorer holds her birch bark canoe in the air above her head, arms stretched wide

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Vermillion Canoes – two red canoes at sunset on Vermillion Lakes with Mt. Rundle in the background

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Golden Hour in the Heart of Canoeland – two red canoes sit anchored by a float in the heart of The Rockies

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Imagine Canoe – a canoe named Imagine at Lake Louise

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“Love many, trust a few, and always paddle your own canoe.” These 11 canoe paintings capture the love for canoeing in Canada, where the journey, not the arrival matters. Where happiness is finally leaving the shore and if there is magic on this planet it is contained within the glistening waters cut by your paddle. No matter the weather, you can enjoy the feeling daily, with one of these paintings on your wall. Find out how you can own one of these paintings today and improve your view for generations to come.  See more beautiful canoe paintings here.