Chipmunk and Woodland Blue Butterfly Enhanced — Framed Piece Oil while the composition carries a

while the composition carries a raw kinetic charge that static wildlife art rarely achieves

the texture of the paper showing through every stroke

large tropical foliage — suggests an observation made on one of Glen's working trips outside Canada

This is not a decorative image

his wildlife studies have been collected internationally for over five decades

Chipmunk and Woodland Blue Butterfly Enhanced — Framed Piece Oil while the composition carries aA chipmunk pauses on a moss covered log, watching a Woodland Blue Butterfly drift past. The original watercolour study, executed by Glen in his characteristic patient field style, has here been transformed: Glen returned to the work years later with soft pastel, Chinese white ink, and coloured pencil applying a luminous green and gold background that lifts the figure off the page, and refining the smallest details until every whisker, fern frond, and