Black Bear Cubs — Gallery Canvas birds Glen chose to paint it

Glen chose to paint it not as a curiosity but as a subject worthy of full attention: the drooping flower head

this piece is among his most recent and most richly observed landscape works

making the family feel completely embedded in their habitat

head thrown back

Gold aspens on the bank of Lac Cardinal on the Peace River — the trunks white against the yellow canopy

Black Bear Cubs — Gallery Canvas birds Glen chose to paint itOne cub stands on a fallen log, tongue out, nose working the other peers over the edge with the particular cautious curiosity of a young bear encountering bees for the first time. Glen found the comedy in this moment without letting it slip into sentimentality. The watercolour is tight where the cubs' fur catches light, loose and atmospheric in the surrounding vegetation exactly the kind of contrast that made his wildlife work feel alive rather than