Canada stands with Ukraine

Prayer for the Fallen

February 24, 2024Art, Uncategorizedacrylic painting, ballet, ballet art, Canada stands with Ukraine, Glory to Ukraine, National Ballet of Ukraine, Prayer for the Fallen, Stand with Ukraine, standing with Ukraine, Wordpress bloggerAndrew Seal Leave a comment

On the second anniversary of the invasion of Ukraine by Russia on February 24, 2022, this painting was inspired by Prayer for the Fallen danced so movingly by members of the National Ballet of Ukraine, which we were privileged to see during their Vancouver visit earlier this month. Today, our thoughts, as they are everyday, are very much with the brave people of Ukraine together with the memory of so many of their children, women and men who are no longer with us. We can only hope that there will not be a third anniversary.

How fortunate we are that the National Ballet of Ukraine has made Prayer for the Fallen available on YouTube for us all to be moved and inspired by.

Slava Ukraini

Standing with Ukraine…

April 24, 2023UncategorizedCanada stands with Ukraine, landscape photography, Pacific Spirit Park, standing with Ukraine, UkraineAndrew Seal Leave a comment

…today and everyday.

a terrorist state

October 11, 2022UncategorizedCanada stands with Ukraine, President Zelenskyy, Protest Art, Russia is a terrorist state, Stand with Ukraine, Ukraine, United Nations, war crimesAndrew Seal Leave a comment

“Russia has proven once again that this is a terrorist state…Unfortunately you can hardly call for a stable and sane peace as long as an unstable and insane dictatorship exists in your vicinity,”

Sergiy Kyslytsya, Ukraine’s ambassador to the UN speaking to the General Assembly after Monday’s multiple missile attacks that killed 14 civilians and wounded 97.

“Either it’s victory for Ukraine or defeat for the whole world,”
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaking to the BBC.

bereft

April 9, 2022UncategorizedCanada stands with Ukraine, Canadian National Vimy Memorial, crimes against humanity, photography, Stand with Ukraine, Vimy Ridge Day, war crimesAndrew Seal Leave a comment

As we remember all those brave Canadian soldiers who fought and died in 1917 on this day, a day that commemorates the battle of Vimy Ridge, this statue entitled Canada Bereft from the Vimy Ridge Memorial in Northern France seems to express how we are all feeling today and could perhaps even be thought of as Ukraine Bereft as our thoughts every day are of all those who are dying in yet another senseless and cruel war in which the victims are not just brave Ukrainian soldiers but innocent, defenseless children, women, and the elderly all dying together from torture, starvation and murder at the hands of the ruthless Russian army, all war crimes and crimes against humanity.

Words and voices from Canada at the Vancouver Art Gallery yesterday standing with the people of Ukraine and for an end to the agony of this senseless war as we continue with broken hearts to mourn the women, men and children who are being so cruelly killed each day by a heartless and demented war criminal who must one day be held to account.

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