The most well known Artworks of Brandy Saturley

ICONIC Canadian Paintings

Installation View: #ICONICCANUCK exhibition at CARFAC Alberta in Edmonton, 2013

Welcome to the ICONIC Collection

The ICONIC collection of paintings are the most well known, exhibited, published and recognized paintings created by celebrated Canadian pop art painter, Brandy Saturley. These Iconic Canadian paintings created under the oeuvre, #ICONICCANUCK – a hashtag the artist coined on Twitter in 2013 to describe her distinct style of Canadian Art.

Saturley’s work explores themes of identity, cultural icons, and the Canadian landscape.

Iconic [īˈkänik]: relating to or of the nature of an icon. Canuck [kəˈnək] : a Canadian (fun-loving expression for a Canadian). The hashtag became the title of the artists’ first public gallery exhibition, taking place in Edmonton at the end of 2013. Since then, #ICONICCANUCK not only references the paintings of Saturley that comment on pan-Canadian identity, it has become the painter’s persona, online and in the short documentary film produced in 2020. The ‘Iconic Canuck’ has quickly become the alter ego of Saturley, as the artist develops her own iconography, as a contemporary visual artist in Canada.


In these Iconic Canadian Paintings you will find influences from Art History

From American painter Grant Wood, to Canadian Group of Seven luminary, Lawren Harris, you will find these compositions familiar and offering a contemporary take, from the perspective of a Canadian Artist. In these distinctly Canadian Paintings you will see influences of the Mother of American Modernism, Georgia O’Keeffe as well as a nod to polish Art Deco painter, Tamara de Lempicka. I feel that my work has also been influenced by my childhood spent in the fishing community of Sooke BC where Indigenous teachers were part of our early school curriculum, as well as our most historically significant painter from this area, Emily Carr.

I suppose on some level, I am injecting Canadian Art into famous artworks of the past as a way to express the lack of Canadian Art recognition in the world markets. Canadian Art is still but a crumb of the Art World pie, and my hope is one day that crumb will grow into a decent sized portion on those Art World pie charts. ~ Brandy Saturley