Black Bear and Honey Bees — Framed Piece Frame:White The Life Plant earned its

The Life Plant earned its common name from exactly this property

black spruce stand wet and still

the outcome is suspended

and coloured pencil — applying a luminous green-and-gold background that lifts the figure off the page

the precision of the plumage

Black Bear and Honey Bees — Framed Piece Frame:White The Life Plant earned itsA 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