Wild Roses — Gallery Canvas Cat A field of Black-Eyed Susans

A field of Black-Eyed Susans caught at the height of summer — the yellow so saturated it pushes back against the pale background

the other reaching for a fat blue berry

This 1986 watercolour is one of Glen's most luminous and warmly coloured bird-and-botanical compositions

A honeybee is just visible at the top

the ear tufts lifted

Wild Roses — Gallery Canvas Cat A field of Black-Eyed SusansWild 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