Poppies 3

I was given the opportunity to paint an artwork for the REGI Base Foundation, which has created a charitable art project to support disabled war veterans and current heroes. It was an event for International War Veterans Day on 11/11/2020. It involved an exhibition called "Poppies in Paintings 2020."

This is an excerpt about the project from this project's catalog:

"The poppy is a symbol of war veterans, and it has its origins in a 1915 poem called "In Flanders Fields" by Canadian surgeon John McCrae, who served on the Western Front near the Belgian town of Ypres during World War I and used the poem to express his grief for his fellow soldiers who were killed.

This work was later commissioned as the third work in the series.