Flowering Raspberry — Giclée on Paper Artwork the composition crackling with energy

the composition crackling with energy

A Cooper's Hawk perches on a dead oak branch

and looked again

one crouched low in its form

This is one of Glen's most powerful large predator studies: the cougar's gaze directed outward and down

Flowering Raspberry — Giclée on Paper Artwork the composition crackling with energyFlowering Raspberry Rubus odoratus in full bloom, the large magenta pink flowers vivid among the broad maple like leaves. This is one of the showiest of Ontario's native shrubs, a plant of forest edges and rocky outcrops that produces flowers disproportionately large for its modest stature. Glen rendered it with the botanical completeness he brought to all his wildflower subjects: the wrinkled petals, the clustered stamens, the specific leaf venation.