Violet — Gallery Canvas wildlife the way they drop and

the way they drop and return in short hunting flights

the light seemingly coming from within the green — gives the piece a quality unlike his later

The bare elm behind the feeder is rendered branch by branch

demanding the kind of close observation he devoted his career to

Violet — Gallery Canvas wildlife the way they drop andA violet the simple five petalled wildflower of Ontario's spring forest floor rendered in watercolour with the careful attention Glen brought to all his botanical subjects. The violet's specific anatomy the lowest petal with its nectar guide, the lateral petals with their basal hairs, the upper petals is present for those who look, while the composition as a whole carries the warmth and freshness of early spring in an Ontario forest. The violet