Black Bear and Honey Bees — Framed Piece Frame:White The Life Plant earned its

The Life Plant earned its common name from exactly this property

the outcome is suspended

the precision of the plumage

This coloured-pencil landscape captures the particular quality of Ontario autumn seen from elevation: the sheer volume of colour in every direction

The coloured pencil medium gives the piece a warmth that suits the subject: this is a family portrait

Black Bear and Honey Bees — Framed Piece Frame:White The Life Plant earned itsA full grown black bear tears into a rotting stump, head thrown back, completely indifferent to the cloud of bees rising around it. It is one of the oldest scenes in the Canadian wilderness bear and bees, a negotiation that always ends the same way. Glen captured it with the watercolour looseness and confidence of an artist who has spent enough time in the boreal to know exactly what this looks like in afternoon light. The surrounding vegetation