Black Bear and Honey Bees — Gallery Canvas Vertical he and his father Glen

he and his father Glen built a snowman together in the yard

his spring forest scenes

Executed in coloured pencil

This painting is among his most formally composed owl portraits: the bird placed in the middle of the canvas

the precision of the plumage

Black Bear and Honey Bees — Gallery Canvas Vertical he and his father GlenA full grown black bear tears into a rotting stump, head thrown back, completely indifferent to the cloud of bees rising around it. It is one of the oldest scenes in the Canadian wilderness bear and bees, a negotiation that always ends the same way. Glen captured it with the watercolour looseness and confidence of an artist who has spent enough time in the boreal to know exactly what this looks like in afternoon light. The surrounding vegetation