Painting Canada – New Paintings Made in the First 6 Months of 2025

Painting Canada is something I’ve been doing for nearly two decades now—an ongoing visual journey that traverses provinces, symbols, and stories across this vast and layered country. Every year, I take a moment to pause halfway through and reflect on new paintings that have emerged from the first six months of 2025. It’s part self-check-in, part celebration, and always an exercise in understanding where the brush has taken me—and where it wants to go next.

On average, I complete between 25 to 35 new paintings annually, each one contributing to the broader narrative of Canadian identity, place, and imagination. This year, however, feels different. I’m on track to produce a particularly large and ambitious body of work—one that spans geography, mythology, memory, and the daily poetry of life in Canada.

In 2025, I’ve continued developing the Polar Bear King series—paintings that follow a solitary polar bear as he journeys across North America in search of a new home. These works are part allegory, part environmental commentary, and part personal myth-making. The Polar Bear King has taken on a life of his own, becoming a kind of nomadic hero navigating changing landscapes with quiet resilience.

Alongside the polar bear’s travels, I’ve returned to some familiar yet ever-evolving territories—painting the dramatic skies and rolling foothills of Alberta, and the rugged coastal beauty of Newfoundland. Each landscape painting captures more than topography—it holds a mood, a memory, and a sense of national character seen through my eyes.

I’ve also woven in symbols of identity and seasonality: Canada flags rendered in unexpected contexts, floral still life’s infused with a pop-modernist palette, and compositions that combine realism with abstraction, celebration with critique.

This year’s paintings are bursting with colour and story. They continue to build on a narrative I’ve been telling for years: one that invites the viewer to reflect, dream, and perhaps see their own Canadian experience mirrored back in paint.

Here are my Top 10 Paintings of 2025 (so far)—a mid-year highlight reel of what’s come to life in the studio.

1. Please Stand By

2. Heartbeats Hum

3. Float Away With Me

4. Red Rocks

5. The Beach

6. Wild Rose Country

7. Hello Poppy!

8. Lovers in A Dangerous Time

9. Easy, Breezy, Beautiful

10. Hanging On a Cloud

Currently paintings by Brandy Saturley are available through James Baird Gallery in Newfoundland, Gust Gallery in Waterton Lakes, Willock & Sax Gallery in Banff and through the artist directly through this website.