Black Bear and Honey Bees — Giclée on Paper Print Size:14" x 11.5" Wild Columbine — Aquilegia canadensis

Wild Columbine — Aquilegia canadensis — the native columbine of eastern Canadian woodlands

this study demonstrates something rarer — an animal at ease

and this is the definitive statement of that subject

This piece sits slightly apart in Glen's catalogue — domestic where most of his work is wild

the buff facial disc

Black Bear and Honey Bees — Giclée on Paper Print Size:14" x 11.5" Wild Columbine — Aquilegia canadensisA 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