Red Squirrel and Pileated Woodpecker — Giclée on Paper Print Size:13.5" x 16" the orange feet visible through

the orange feet visible through the transparent shallows

just applied to an unfamiliar species

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

the whole scene lit with the filtered turquoise light of tropical shallows

Red Squirrel and Pileated Woodpecker — Giclée on Paper Print Size:13.5" x 16" the orange feet visible throughA Red Squirrel faces off against a Pileated Woodpecker on the trunk of a dead pine the woodpecker emerging from its excavation, the squirrel on a branch just across, both alert and assessing. This is a territorial encounter in progress: the Pileated, excavating for carpenter ants, and the Red Squirrel, investigating the noise, have come face to face. The composition is spare and tense, the background dissolved to a soft blue. Glen observed and