The Apple Orchard — Giclée on Paper Artwork and coloured pencil — applying

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

Pickerelweed in a summer marsh — the purple flower spikes rising from heart-shaped leaves still beaded with rain

this apple orchard painting is one of his most evocative and regionally specific Ontario landscape works

This is the perfect mutualism made visible: the columbine evolved its long red spur specifically for the long bill of the hummingbird

not running — simply paying the closest possible attention to something new

The Apple Orchard — Giclée on Paper Artwork and coloured pencil — applyingAn old apple orchard in late autumn the gnarled trunks and bare branches of mature apple trees, the last of the small apples still clinging, the orchard floor deep in fallen leaves. This is a landscape painting about time and endurance: these trees are old, they have borne fruit for decades, and Glen gave them the same attention he would give a large animal the specific character of each trunk, the way the branches divide and divide again, the texture