Mosquitoes — Gallery Canvas Artwork A still beaver pond opens

A still beaver pond opens onto a horizon of wine-coloured hills

the focus is entirely on the three small bodies

the extraordinary reach of those wings: all of it is painted with the authority of long familiarity

this harvest landscape is one of his most atmospheric and distinctive seasonal works

made during the years Glen spent painting the Ontario countryside that surrounded his Maple

Mosquitoes — Gallery Canvas Artwork A still beaver pond opensMosquitoes the ones that made the Canadian wilderness summer what it is. Glen painted them with the same magnified precision he brought to his songbird studies: the compound eyes, the proboscis, the venation of the wings, the long hind legs, all rendered at a scale that forces the viewer to actually look. This is the wildlife art subject no one expects, delivered with complete seriousness. Glen's insect studies demonstrate his belief that everything