Orchid — Gallery Canvas Vertical summer undergrowth — is painted

summer undergrowth — is painted with the same botanical attention Glen applied to his wildlife subjects

the two grey chicks still downy and round

young aspen

where he spent decades watching exactly this kind of traffic at exactly this kind of feeder

and butterfly wing carries new clarity

Orchid — Gallery Canvas Vertical summer undergrowth — is paintedA Phalaenopsis orchid two blooms open on an arching stem, the pink petals precisely veined, the labellum orange yellow at centre, the plant rooted in a pad of Spanish moss. This 1994 coloured pencil botanical study is one of Glen's most elegant: the vertical composition of the single arching stem with its two flowers uses the negative space around it as deliberately as any formal arrangement. The colouring is both botanically exact and visually