Cardinals in Snow — Bag For her Glen's columbine paintings document one

Glen's columbine paintings document one of the most architecturally interesting wildflowers in the Ontario forest — a plant shaped by its pollinator relationship with hummingbirds

An Ontario pumpkin field at harvest — the great orange spheres scattered across the dried vine rows in the foreground

The black and grey together in one composition makes a quietly striking point about the range of colour within a single species

This is Glen's most complex raccoon composition: four individually characterized animals in a multi-level habitat

Cardinals in Snow — Bag For her Glen's columbine paintings document oneA male cardinal drops toward a snow covered pine, wings spread in landing, while a female forages below in the blue white shadow of the drifts. This 1987 watercolour is the image most people picture when they think of Glen Loates the red of the male against winter snow, the composition spare and absolutely certain. Nothing is wasted. The pine needles, the seed casings scattered on the snow, the shadow that gives the drift its dimension: every element