Meadow Lark — Framed Piece Artwork the red cherries brilliant against

the red cherries brilliant against the turning autumn leaves

the far shore just a blue line across the water

The result is a portrait of absolute presence

A violet — the simple five-petalled wildflower of Ontario's spring forest floor — rendered in watercolour with the careful attention Glen brought to all his botanical subjects

This is not a North American subject: the Purple Heron is a European and African species

Meadow Lark — Framed Piece Artwork the red cherries brilliant againstA Western Meadowlark the vivid yellow breast with its black chevron catching the morning light, the bird perched on a fence post with the prairie stretching behind it. Glen brought the same anatomical precision to the Meadowlark as to his Ontario birds, the specific arrangement of the breast streaking and the yellow below rendered without shortcut. The open country behind the bird fence line, grasses, distant sky places it exactly where this bird