Orchid — Gallery Canvas Vertical Of course Canada's national animal

Of course Canada's national animal would attract him

summer undergrowth — is painted with the same botanical attention Glen applied to his wildlife subjects

where he spent decades watching exactly this kind of traffic at exactly this kind of feeder

the location

Orchid — Gallery Canvas Vertical Of course Canada's national animalA Phalaenopsis orchid two blooms open on an arching stem, the pink petals precisely veined, the labellum orange yellow at centre, the plant rooted in a pad of Spanish moss. This 1994 coloured pencil botanical study is one of Glen's most elegant: the vertical composition of the single arching stem with its two flowers uses the negative space around it as deliberately as any formal arrangement. The colouring is both botanically exact and visually