Over the Hills and Far Away — Gallery Canvas NEW A Crimson Cattleya Orchid in

A Crimson Cattleya Orchid in full bloom — the magenta-pink petals large and ruffled

and Glen painted this cub with the disciplined imagination of a naturalist working from careful research

the lateral petals with their basal hairs

the whole composition breathing with the specific quality of early May in a mixed hardwood forest

the proboscis

Over the Hills and Far Away — Gallery Canvas NEW A Crimson Cattleya Orchid inA gravel road crests a hill and drops into a summer Ontario valley a grey barn visible at the farm below, hydro poles following the road down, an orchard to the right, wildflowers at the roadside verge. This is rural Ontario painted with the affection of someone who grew up in it: the specific texture of a gravel road, the way an Ontario summer valley looks from the top of a concession hill, the particular blue of distant hills under a July sky. Glen