Wild Roses — Framed Piece Book is barely sketched in

is barely sketched in

The painting is both beautiful and

He is a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts whose watercolour wildlife studies set the standard for the form in Canada

the flowers appearing between them at different heights

the small opposite leaves precisely rendered

Wild Roses — Framed Piece Book is barely sketched inWild Roses the native Rosa species of Ontario's fields and hedgerows rendered with the botanical completeness Glen brought to all his wildflower subjects. The five pink petals, the golden stamens, the compound leaves with their serrated leaflets, the beginning of the rosehip at the base of the flower: all present and correctly placed. The Wild Rose appears throughout Glen's work as the companion plant of summer in his field landscapes, his deer