Explore Things We Carry, a Canadian bear art series by Pamela Buttazzoni featuring expressive original bear paintings and fine art reproductions about tenderness, courage, memory, and emotional weight.
Things We Carry Series – Lets start off with the “ORIGINALS”.
Canadian Bear Art Rooted in Strength, Tenderness, and Story
Things We Carry is a growing collection of Canadian bear art by Pamela Buttazzoni, created as an emotional wildlife series exploring what we hold, what we protect, and what quietly shapes us.
At first glance, these paintings are bear portraits. But beneath the fur, softness, colour, and expressive mark making, each piece carries a deeper story. The bears in this series are not painted as symbols of aggression or wilderness alone. They are painted as guardians of feeling. They carry tenderness, memory, courage, grief, hope, and the invisible emotional weight that so many people move through life with.
This series brings together Pamela’s love of Canadian wildlife, expressive mixed media, and emotionally layered storytelling. Each bear painting begins with movement, texture, and intuitive marks, then slowly builds into form through acrylic, ink, charcoal, and oil. The result is a body of work that feels both wild and deeply human.
About the Series
The Things We Carry series was born from the idea that everyone carries something.
Some burdens are visible. Others are hidden beneath softness, humour, strength, or silence. Bears became the perfect subject for this exploration because they hold so many contradictions at once. They are powerful yet tender. Solitary yet protective. Wild yet familiar. Heavy yet emotionally gentle.
In this Canadian bear art series, Pamela uses the bear as a vessel for emotional storytelling. Each artwork reflects a different kind of inner weight: the softness we carry for others, the courage it takes to keep going, the fragile hope we refuse to let go of, and the quiet strength that holds us together.
The pieces are connected through subject, feeling, scale, and atmosphere, while each painting stands on its own as a complete emotional portrait.
Fine Art Reproductions and Artful Goods from this series
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Bear Art Mug | Held Together Art Mug
Start your day with a reminder that some hearts are meant to be carried together. Featuring Pamela Buttazzoni's original artwork Held Together, this ceramic art mug showcases two bears sharing the responsibility of a floating heart—a symbol of love, support, and connection. Available in multiple accent colours. |
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Price range: $16.16 through $20.56
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Bear Art Mug | The Softest Weight Art Mug
Bear art mug - Bring a little tenderness to your morning coffee with The Softest Weight ceramic mug, featuring Pamela Buttazzoni’s original bear artwork from the Things We Carry series. This 11oz art mug pairs a bold red handle and interior with a meaningful fine art image — perfect for coffee, tea, cocoa, studio desks, gift baskets, and collectors who like their mugs with a little emotional baggage. |
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$43.44
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Bear Foam Print | The Courage To Float Foam Portrait
A lightweight bear foam print featuring The Courage to Float, part of Pamela Buttazzoni’s Things We Carry bear artwork series. This Artful Goods wall decor piece is printed on demand through Gelato and offers an easy, modern way to bring meaningful Canadian bear art into your home. Please note: This item is part of the Artful Goods collection. It is a print-on-demand decor product and is not signed, not numbered, and does not include a certificate of authenticity. |
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Price range: $71.04 through $161.02
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Bear Painting Fine Art Print Reproduction of The Courage To Float by Canadian Artist Pamela Buttazzoni
Bring warmth, hope, and wonder into your home with The Courage to Float, a bear wall art reproduction by Canadian artist Pamela Buttazzoni. Featuring a gentle brown bear and a heart-shaped balloon, this museum-quality fine art print explores resilience, courage, and emotional connection. Perfect for wildlife lovers, modern interiors, nurseries, cottages, and collectors of meaningful Canadian art. Signed and accompanied by a certificate of authenticity. |
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Price range: $10.00 through $372.00
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Bear Wall Art Print – The Softest Weight Fine Art Reproduction
A tender fine art reproduction from Pamela Buttazzoni’s Things We Carry series, The Softest Weight blends expressive bear imagery, a floating red heart, and layered blue texture to create meaningful bear wall art for bedrooms, nurseries, reading nooks, and soulful spaces. |
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Framed Bear Wall Art | The Courage to Float
A ready-to-hang framed bear wall art poster featuring The Courage to Float, an expressive Canadian bear artwork by Pamela Buttazzoni. Printed on premium matte paper and finished in a wooden frame, this piece brings warmth, courage, and quiet wilderness charm into your home. |
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Price range: $138.50 through $485.00
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Original Bear Painting - Held Together by Canadian Artist Pamela Buttazzoni
Held Together is an original mixed media bear painting by Canadian fine artist Pamela Buttazzoni. Created on fine art paper and finished with oil, this 18″ x 24″ artwork captures the quiet movement, cool blues, and atmospheric beauty of a marshland moment. Signed and accompanied by a certificate of authenticity.
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Original Bear Painting - The Courage To Float by Canadian Artist Pamela Buttazzoni
A curious bear and a heart-shaped balloon become symbols of hope, wonder, and quiet resilience in The Courage to Float. This original mixed media and oil painting on fine art paper is part of Pamela Buttazzoni's Things We Carry series, exploring the emotional objects that shape our lives. Signed and accompanied by a certificate of authenticity.
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$2,100.00
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Original Bear Painting - The Softest Weight by Canadian Artist Pamela Buttazzoni
Created on fine art paper, The Softest Weight is part of the Things We Carry series exploring emotional vulnerability, tenderness, and quiet resilience. Created on fine art paper and finished with oil, this 18"x24". Signed and accompanied by a certificate of authenticity.
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Collector Statement
For Collectors
The Things We Carry series is created for collectors who are drawn to wildlife art with emotional depth. These are not traditional bear paintings focused only on realism or wilderness. They are expressive, layered works that use the bear as a symbol of tenderness, courage, protection, and quiet survival.
Each original painting is created by Pamela Buttazzoni using mixed media and oil, resulting in a richly textured surface and a one-of-a-kind presence. Fine art reproductions may also be available for select pieces, offering collectors another way to bring the emotional spirit of the series into their home.
This series is especially meaningful for those who connect with Canadian wildlife, symbolic animal art, emotional storytelling, and artwork that feels both strong and soft.