Flowering Raspberry — Gallery Canvas Insects and Butterflies The martin house — that

The martin house — that very human addition to the summer yard — sits in the painting as a promise: the martins will return

Glen was as fascinated by fish as by birds and mammals

5” X 20”

the rust-orange throat

and Glen's painting honours that quality

Flowering Raspberry — Gallery Canvas Insects and Butterflies The martin house — thatFlowering Raspberry Rubus odoratus in full bloom, the large magenta pink flowers vivid among the broad maple like leaves. This is one of the showiest of Ontario's native shrubs, a plant of forest edges and rocky outcrops that produces flowers disproportionately large for its modest stature. Glen rendered it with the botanical completeness he brought to all his wildflower subjects: the wrinkled petals, the clustered stamens, the specific leaf venation.