Mosquitoes — Gallery Canvas Artwork A pair of Hooded Mergansers

A pair of Hooded Mergansers on rippled water — the male in foreground with his extraordinary black-and-white crest fully raised

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

the root structure emerging from the humus

the focus is entirely on the three small bodies

A still beaver pond opens onto a horizon of wine-coloured hills

Mosquitoes — Gallery Canvas Artwork A pair of Hooded MergansersMosquitoes the ones that made the Canadian wilderness summer what it is. Glen painted them with the same magnified precision he brought to his songbird studies: the compound eyes, the proboscis, the venation of the wings, the long hind legs, all rendered at a scale that forces the viewer to actually look. This is the wildlife art subject no one expects, delivered with complete seriousness. Glen's insect studies demonstrate his belief that everything