Purple Violets — Gallery Canvas Wrap Color:Black A spring woodland scene —

A spring woodland scene — the first wildflowers of the Ontario season emerging through the leaf litter

just the plants themselves rendered with the precision of a naturalist who has spent time on his hands and knees in the forest studying exactly this kind of ground-level flora

This is a painting that speaks directly to anyone who has stood in a stream watching a trout rise

A woolly caterpillar on the branch beside the cub adds the note of scale that makes the painting work compositionally

Glen observed nesting birds with the discipline of a naturalist who understood how disturbing that observation could be

Purple Violets — Gallery Canvas Wrap Color:Black A spring woodland scene —A clump of purple violets in full spring bloom the heart shaped leaves dense and fresh, the purple flowers nestled among them, a few bare twigs from last season still visible above. This is one of Glen's most intimate and tenderly observed botanical studies: the whole violet clump rendered as a single living thing, the leaves overlapping and turning at different angles, the flowers appearing between them at different heights. The violet was one of