Brandy Saturley

Brandy Saturley
Born1972 (age 53–54)
Victoria, British Columbia
Alma materEmily Carr University of Art and Design
Royal College of Art
OccupationArtist
Known forICONICCANUCK
Websitebrandysaturley.com

Brandy Saturley (born 1972) is a 21st-century Canadian visual artist best known for her figurative paintings depicting aspects of Canadian culture.[1][2]

Early life and education

Saturley was born in Victoria, British Columbia in 1972.[3][4][5] She was raised on a hobby farm in a fishing community in Sooke, Vancouver Island.[6] She is of Ukrainian, Cornish, and Canadian (Vancouver Island) descent.[7] Her mother was a mixed media artist, and her grandmother was a painter.[7]

Saturley studied visual culture at Emily Carr University of Art and Design, and contemporary art practices at the Royal College of Art in London, England.[3][8] Saturley is also a graduate of the Victoria Motion Picture School, where she earned a degree in cinema.[3][9]

Career

Saturley began her career as a visual artist in the mid-1990s and transitioned to full-time work in the early 2000s.[7] Her first public gallery exhibition, Iconic Canuck, was the subject of the 2020 documentary The Iconic Canuck, directed and produced by Randy Frykas.[10]

In 2011, Saturley began her art series Canadianisms.[11] Over the next five years, she explored Canadian culture and landscapes through travels across the country.[11][12] The resulting exhibition, Canadianisms: A Half Decade Inspired by Canada, toured public galleries in Alberta in 2017.[11][13]

In 2012, her artwork, Goalie's Mask, was added to the hockey gallery at the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame in Calgary.[9] The painting features Ken Dryden's hockey mask set against a backdrop of the Canadian flag.[9][4] It was later shortlisted for the Canadian Olympic Committee's trophy for Sport and Art in 2014.[11]

In 2014, Saturley launched the People of Canada Portrait Project, an online exhibition featuring 20 portraits.[14][15] The project was officially launched in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic.[15]

In 2023, Saturley served on the judging panel for the 2023 Canada International Art Competition, funded by the Government of Canada.[16]

In 2025, Saturley published the 112-page artist monograph Painting Canada, which is held in the National Gallery of Canada Library and Archives.[17] That same year, she participated in Winteractive 2025, an outdoor art exhibition in downtown Boston.[18][19]

Saturley also collaborated with the Canadian rock band The Tragically Hip on the painting Gift Shop, which was used for a poster and limited-edition print series.[20]

Work

Saturley worked on the I See Mountains series, influenced by her ten-day journey through the Canadian Rockies in 2010.[21] The series used horizontal canvases to depict landscapes such as Babel, Rundle, Crowfoot, Mount Assiniboine, and Mount Robson.[21]

Saturley's Canadianisms series, exhibited in cities such as Edmonton and Calgary, reinterprets acclaimed artworks to incorporate Canadian cultural elements, such as hockey masks, into traditional artistic motifs.[21]

In 2018, her painting, Balance, was featured in the Society of Canadian Artists' 50th Open International Exhibition in Toronto.[21] The work explored landscape themes, blending elements of realism and abstraction.[21]

Selected exhibitions

  • #ICONICCANUCK, CARFAC Alberta Gallery at Harcourt House, 2013[22][23]
  • Canadianisms: A Half Decade Inspired by Canada, Okotoks Art Gallery, 2017[11]
  • Half Decade inspired by Canada, Gallery @501 in Strathcona County, 2017[24]

Permanent collections

  • Canadian Tire Corporation
  • Canadian Sports Hall of Fame[4][9]
  • Colart Collection (Rossy Family Trust)[4]
  • Banff & Lake Louise Tourism

References

  1. ↑ "Brandy Saturley". Society of Canadian Artists. Retrieved April 7, 2026.
  2. ↑ "Brandy Saturley". Artists in Canada. July 29, 2025. Retrieved April 7, 2026.
  3. 1 2 3 4 "Saturley, Brandy | Colart Collection".
  4. ↑ "Artists in Canada". October 17, 2012.
  5. ↑ Grossman, Nina (January 31, 2021). "North Saanich 'Iconic Canuck' paints portrayal of COVID-19". Victoria News.
  6. 1 2 3 "About People of Canada".
  7. ↑ "Brandy Saturley".
  8. 1 2 3 4 "Brandy Saturley". Galleries West.
  9. ↑ "Brandy Saturley - Canadian Pop Realism Paintings Artist from Victoria BC".
  10. 1 2 3 4 5 Rollie, Tammy (June 7, 2017). "Canada inspiring west coast artist". Western Wheel.
  11. ↑ "To Yellowknife, With Love". Reader's Digest.
  12. ↑ "Gallery@501 kicks off Canada's 150 celebration | Strathcona County". September 23, 2021. Archived from the original on 2021-09-23.
  13. ↑ Couture, Christa (16 December 2016). "Brandy Saturley wants to turn your snapshots into playful portraits of a nation". CBC News.
  14. 1 2 "POC the people of Canada portrait project".
  15. ↑ "Canada International Art Competition" (PDF).
  16. ↑ "Artist/Maker name "Saturley, Brandy"". Artists in Canada. Government of Canada. Retrieved 16 May 2026.
  17. ↑ "2025". Winteractive. Downtown Boston Alliance. Retrieved 16 May 2026.
  18. ↑ "Winteractive Brings 24-Piece Free Art Gallery To Downtown Boston". Boston Uncovered. Retrieved 16 May 2026.
  19. ↑ "Gift Shop – Brandy Saturley Poster". The Hip Gift Shop. Retrieved 16 May 2026.
  20. 1 2 3 4 5 Bell, Andrea (August 2018). "The Pop Canadianisms of Brandy Saturley". Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art.
  21. ↑ "Visual Arts Alberta Gallery: Brandy Saturley". November 28, 2013.
  22. ↑ The Art of Brandy Saturley. The Art of Brandy Saturley. 2014. ISBN 9781320241144.
  23. ↑ "Exhibits".
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