Raccoon Baby — Giclée on Paper Watercolor and Glen's painting honours that

and Glen's painting honours that quality

The red berries in the tree above are just ripe

and the Sonoran Desert flora are rendered with the same observational precision he brought to his Canadian subjects

The view from below the surface: a Belted Kingfisher has punched through the water and is diving toward a Rainbow Trout

The watercolour is from 1990 and represents Glen working at the peak of his technical powers: the lynx's winter coat painted with the same fine-brush patience he brought to his quieter portraits

Raccoon Baby — Giclée on Paper Watercolor and Glen's painting honours thatA young raccoon sits at a pond's edge among pickerelweed the juvenile plumage still fluffy, the mask already distinct, the animal regarding the viewer with the alert curiosity of a young mammal encountering something new. A leopard frog sits at the lower right, barely visible but precisely rendered. The pickerelweed behind the kit is botanically exact another wetland species given its due. This painting brings together two classic Ontario pond species