Building Our Future — Giclée on Paper Mammals the iridescent neck patch just

the iridescent neck patch just visible

This is one of Glen's most ambitious and complete landscape-and-wildlife compositions: the loons are painted with their characteristic precision

and charming ducklings

but the fireflies transform the scene into something more than a wildlife portrait

the specific character of the Shield shoreline

Building Our Future — Giclée on Paper Mammals the iridescent neck patch justA beaver at work dragging a freshly gnawed branch, the clean white tip of the felled birch behind it, the whole scene lit with the soft blue and gold of a northern morning. This is Canada's national animal doing exactly what it has always done: building something that will outlast the season. Glen gave the beaver the same dignity and precision he brought to his raptors and large mammals no sentimentality, just careful, admiring observation. Executed