Trillium — Framed Piece square-scarf Glen painted the Monarch with

Glen painted the Monarch with the awareness of a naturalist who understood its significance: the annual migration

its long spurs evolved to exclude all but the longest bills

the unhurried purpose of two large predators following a trail they trust

This is botanical illustration at its most precise and most personally invested

is one of the painting's finest passages

Trillium — Framed Piece square-scarf Glen painted the Monarch withA White Trillium Ontario's provincial flower rendered with the botanical completeness that Glen brought to all his wildflower subjects: the three petals, the three sepals, the three leaves, the single stem rising from the forest floor. The Trillium is both botanically simple and visually perfect, and Glen treated it with the respect the subject deserves. The White Trillium appears throughout Glen's work as a companion plant in his spring forest