Chipmunk and Woodland Blue Butterfly Enhanced — Framed Piece Oil There is a story behind

There is a story behind this painting that no other gallery can tell

the texture of the paper showing through every stroke

but finding that same bird in green requires subtler chromatic judgment

a few loose feathers drifting from the hunt

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

Chipmunk and Woodland Blue Butterfly Enhanced — Framed Piece Oil There is a story behindA 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