WE'RE ALL IN THE SAME BOAT: "THE MOOSE" BY EMILIE DARLINGTON

Emilie (Artwork By Emilie) has been sowing the seeds of her, oft botanical inspired, art all across the country with the goal of growing shared experiences for observers by cultivating targeted emotive responses. For the BeaverTails Ottawa Ice Dragon Boat Festival’s “We’re All in the Same Boat” artistic series Emilie continued with her botanical theme by including each of the 13 official flowers for Canada’s 10 provinces and 3 territories within her vision of one of Canada’s most gentle giants, the moose. See if you can find all 13 (Listed Below) while also appreciating this piece that, as Emilie describes the process behind it, was an “intoxicating inspiring feeling” in which “the hours roll by, the sun goes down, and finally I have to force myself away from my paints and into bed only to wake up early & eagerly rush back to my studio” because the inspiration just hit so hard she couldn’t put her brushes down.

Canada’s Official Provincial and Territorial Flowers:
Blue Flag Iris (Quebec)
Fireweed (Yukon)
Lady’s Slipper (PEI)
Mayflower (Nova Scotia)
Mountain Avens (Northwest Territories)
Pacific Dogwood (BC)
Pitcher Plant (Newfoundland & Labrador)
Prairie Crocus (Manitoba)
Purple Saxifrage (Nunavut)
Purple Violet (New Brunswick)
Western Red Lily (Saskatchewan)
White Trillium (Ontario)
Wild Rose (Alberta)