Chipmunk on Forest Floor — Framed Piece Artwork A gravel road crests a

A gravel road crests a hill and drops into a summer Ontario valley — a grey barn visible at the farm below

He is a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts whose watercolour wildlife studies set the standard for the form in Canada

for a ten-year-old boy who helped build the subject

his bird-and-botanical spring compositions are among his most beloved and widely collected works

the protruding stamens that give the flower its characteristic fringed appearance

Chipmunk on Forest Floor — Framed Piece Artwork A gravel road crests aA chipmunk navigates its way through a tangle of dried grasses, fallen maple leaves, and bare branches the whole composition a study in the texture of a Canadian forest floor in late autumn. Glen gives us the chipmunk's world at chipmunk scale: the branches overhead are significant obstacles, the leaf litter an entire terrain. The blue bittersweet berries just out of reach above add the only colour note to an otherwise amber and brown palette. This