Calgary Foothills — Framed Piece Square the female behind him with

the female behind him with her rust-coloured head and subtler plumage

but undeniably

the expression of alert innocence that makes fawn portraits among the most universally beloved images in wildlife art

completely indifferent to the cloud of bees rising around it

The wildflower above them

Calgary Foothills — Framed Piece Square the female behind him withThe Rocky Mountains rise behind a wide open Alberta foothills sky bare poplars in the foreground, a farmstead just visible in the middle distance, and in the far distance the permanent white of snow capped peaks under a vault of luminous cloud. This is the scale of the Canadian west rendered in coloured pencil, a medium that gives the piece its characteristic warmth the purple blue of the distant hills, the pale gold of winter grass. Glen made