Flowering Raspberry — Gallery Canvas Insects and Butterflies Glen was as fascinated by

Glen was as fascinated by fish as by birds and mammals

The martin house — that very human addition to the summer yard — sits in the painting as a promise: the martins will return

in the garden

the birds' yellow tail-tips and crimson wing markings catching the light

Two Monarch Butterflies on a milkweed plant — the larger one with wings fully open showing the iconic orange-and-black patterning

Flowering Raspberry — Gallery Canvas Insects and Butterflies Glen was as fascinated byFlowering Raspberry Rubus odoratus in full bloom, the large magenta pink flowers vivid among the broad maple like leaves. This is one of the showiest of Ontario's native shrubs, a plant of forest edges and rocky outcrops that produces flowers disproportionately large for its modest stature. Glen rendered it with the botanical completeness he brought to all his wildflower subjects: the wrinkled petals, the clustered stamens, the specific leaf venation.