Blue Jays — Gallery Canvas ducks A Golden Eagle stands over

A Golden Eagle stands over a young rabbit on a sun-bleached rock face — wings still spread to balance

Decades of field observation are what make a painting like this possible — the patterning of the adult's plumage and the soft down of the chicks rendered with the precision of someone who looked

cheeks not yet stuffed

the other slicing deeper below

Mosquitoes — the ones that made the Canadian wilderness summer what it is

Blue Jays — Gallery Canvas ducks A Golden Eagle stands overTwo blue jays hold their ground in an oak tree as the first snow of autumn dusts the remaining leaves. The composition captures a specific Canadian moment that brief overlap when the last of the fall colour and the first winter snow exist together. Glen rendered the jays' electric blue against the tawny copper of the oak leaves with the kind of chromatic confidence that only comes from painting the same birds, in the same season, year after year. Blue