Purple Violets — Gallery Canvas Wrap Color:Black just the plants themselves rendered

just the plants themselves rendered with the precision of a naturalist who has spent time on his hands and knees in the forest studying exactly this kind of ground-level flora

the protruding stamens that give the flower its characteristic fringed appearance

A spring woodland scene — the first wildflowers of the Ontario season emerging through the leaf litter

this field study is among his most distinctive and intimate botanical works

his freshwater fish paintings are prized by anglers and collectors across Canada

Purple Violets — Gallery Canvas Wrap Color:Black just the plants themselves renderedA clump of purple violets in full spring bloom the heart shaped leaves dense and fresh, the purple flowers nestled among them, a few bare twigs from last season still visible above. This is one of Glen's most intimate and tenderly observed botanical studies: the whole violet clump rendered as a single living thing, the leaves overlapping and turning at different angles, the flowers appearing between them at different heights. The violet was one of