Orchid — Framed Piece Frame:White and placed his cardinals honestly

and placed his cardinals honestly within it

Glen made extended field trips to Drag Lake in Haliburton

the blue hills of the Niagara Escarpment in the far distance

This mystical masterpiece

and reaching for fruit

Orchid — Framed Piece Frame:White and placed his cardinals honestlyA 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