Wild Roses — Gallery Canvas Cat looking directly outward

looking directly outward

A Grizzly Bear on a rocky riverbank — mouth open

The berries are red against olive-grey foliage

A honeybee is just visible at the top

This 1986 watercolour is one of Glen's most luminous and warmly coloured bird-and-botanical compositions

Wild Roses — Gallery Canvas Cat looking directly outwardWild Roses the native Rosa species of Ontario's fields and hedgerows rendered with the botanical completeness Glen brought to all his wildflower subjects. The five pink petals, the golden stamens, the compound leaves with their serrated leaflets, the beginning of the rosehip at the base of the flower: all present and correctly placed. The Wild Rose appears throughout Glen's work as the companion plant of summer in his field landscapes, his deer