Ww1 poppy art

New Zealanders are being called on to get innovative this Anzac Day.

A soldier walking through a field of poppies. - Geordan Davis CHC2P1-14

When I first heard about the campaign to plant millions of poppies across the country to commemorate the WWI Centenary I thought it was a great idea. Apparently, so did Prince Charles and David Cameron, who both endorsed the project as a fitting way to commemorate the 100th Anniversary. READ THE FULL STORY HERE: wp.me/p2Qfae-Sk

"From Freedom's Land, The Poppies Grow" War Poppy Collection 1914-1918 No.1 By artist Jacqueline Hurley This remembrance painting is the first in her new collection of military poppy paintings and her tribute to our Armed Forces during WW1 and a remembrance to the thousands fallen and injured. Jacqueline combines expressionism and Impressionism to create highly textured impasto pieces, using the stark redness of the poppy against gritty monochromatic landscapes. Remembrance Day is every…

The poppy is the recognized symbol of remembrance for war dead in Canada, the countries of the British Commonwealth, and the United States. The flower owes its significance to the poem In Flanders Fields, written by Major (later Lieutenant-Colonel) John McCrae, a field surgeon in the Canadian artillery, in the midst of the Second Battle of Ypres, in Belgium, in May 1915. The poppy references in the first and last stanzas of the most widely read and oft-quoted poem of the war contributed to…

Work in progress by Jacqueline Hurley War Poppy Collection painting to commemorate the centenary of the end of WWI for Poppy Scotland Poppyscotland Remembrance Day Art (unfinished)

Tomorrow Will be a Good Day - Painting by Jacqueline Hurley

Jacqueline Hurley - War Poppy Collection

"Lest we forget"

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