Pheasant in Apple Tree — Gallery Canvas Print Size:23" x 30" the background stripped back

the background stripped back

A woolly caterpillar on the branch beside the cub adds the note of scale that makes the painting work compositionally

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

one perched on the roof with a peanut

this apple orchard painting is one of his most evocative and regionally specific Ontario landscape works

Pheasant in Apple Tree — Gallery Canvas Print Size:23" x 30" the background stripped backA Ring necked Pheasant cock perches in an apple tree the extraordinary iridescent plumage in full autumn display, the red face, the white collar, the long tail: every element of the male pheasant's remarkable appearance rendered with the precision Glen brought to all his bird portraits. This 1985 watercolour places the bird in a gnarled orchard apple tree, the small apples still hanging, the leaves turning. The composition is formal and completely