Jaguar Cub — Gallery Canvas Sold nothing to compete with the

nothing to compete with the bird's authority

the flowers luminous and half-dissolved in light

The title is deliberately ambiguous — whose close call

the flowers appearing between them at different heights

Glen understood that the power of a winter bird painting comes from the cold

Jaguar Cub — Gallery Canvas Sold nothing to compete with theA jaguar cub in the rainforest canopy draped over a branch, watching the viewer from between hanging vines and broad tropical leaves still wet with rain. The rosette patterning of the cub's coat is rendered with absolute precision: the black rings, the tawny centres, the white chest visible below. A woolly caterpillar on the branch beside the cub adds the note of scale that makes the painting work compositionally. Glen painted big cat cubs with a