Red Squirrel and Pileated Woodpecker — Gallery Canvas Wrap Color:White perch position

perch position

The Trillium is both botanically simple and visually perfect

This piece sits a little apart in Glen's catalogue — looser

each bird placed with its own specific posture and intent

made during the years Glen spent painting the Ontario countryside that surrounded his Maple

Red Squirrel and Pileated Woodpecker — Gallery Canvas Wrap Color:White perch positionA 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