Mosquitoes — Framed Piece Mat:Black Orange Hawkweed against a luminous

Orange Hawkweed against a luminous green summer meadow — the flowers vivid and almost diffuse at the edges

holding something in its forepaws

no horizon

This is as tender as wildlife art gets: the animal so young and so precisely rendered that the viewer instinctively lowers their voice

A Mallard drake wades into the shallows at the edge of a lake — the water so clear that the sandy bottom and the duck's feet are both visible

Mosquitoes — Framed Piece Mat:Black Orange Hawkweed against a luminousMosquitoes the ones that made the Canadian wilderness summer what it is. Glen painted them with the same magnified precision he brought to his songbird studies: the compound eyes, the proboscis, the venation of the wings, the long hind legs, all rendered at a scale that forces the viewer to actually look. This is the wildlife art subject no one expects, delivered with complete seriousness. Glen's insect studies demonstrate his belief that everything