Chipmunk and Woodland Blue Butterfly Enhanced — Gallery Canvas Birds The reed reflections make vertical

The reed reflections make vertical lines that organize the painting's quiet surface

the female's warm brown-orange blending more carefully with the surrounding leaves

his wildlife studies are collected internationally and held in major museum collections

no foreground detail — just the shape of the north at the end of a day

Chipmunk and Woodland Blue Butterfly Enhanced — Gallery Canvas Birds The reed reflections make verticalA 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