Building Our Future — Gallery Canvas Book the whole composition breathing with

the whole composition breathing with the specific quality of early May in a mixed hardwood forest

head thrown back

social birds whose behaviour in fruit trees is endlessly compositionally interesting

A Phalaenopsis orchid — two blooms open on an arching stem

The scientific context is part of the painting's identity — this is a specific animal from a specific place and time

Building Our Future — Gallery Canvas Book the whole composition breathing withA beaver at work dragging a freshly gnawed branch, the clean white tip of the felled birch behind it, the whole scene lit with the soft blue and gold of a northern morning. This is Canada's national animal doing exactly what it has always done: building something that will outlast the season. Glen gave the beaver the same dignity and precision he brought to his raptors and large mammals no sentimentality, just careful, admiring observation. Executed