Purple Violets — Gallery Canvas Wrap Color:Black A woolly caterpillar on the

A woolly caterpillar on the branch beside the cub adds the note of scale that makes the painting work compositionally

The body language is proprietary and entirely calm

This is a painting that speaks directly to anyone who has stood in a stream watching a trout rise

the protruding stamens that give the flower its characteristic fringed appearance

Glen observed nesting birds with the discipline of a naturalist who understood how disturbing that observation could be

Purple Violets — Gallery Canvas Wrap Color:Black A woolly caterpillar on theA 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