Jaguar Cub — Gallery Canvas Sold the flowers luminous and half-dissolved

the flowers luminous and half-dissolved in light

Hawkweed was one of the roadside wildflowers Glen grew up observing in Ontario

His graphite drawing practice

executed in mixed watercolour and graphite against a soft wash of cliff and water

the flowers appearing between them at different heights

Jaguar Cub — Gallery Canvas Sold the flowers luminous and half-dissolvedA jaguar cub in the rainforest canopy draped over a branch, watching the viewer from between hanging vines and broad tropical leaves still wet with rain. The rosette patterning of the cub's coat is rendered with absolute precision: the black rings, the tawny centres, the white chest visible below. A woolly caterpillar on the branch beside the cub adds the note of scale that makes the painting work compositionally. Glen painted big cat cubs with a