The Apple Orchard — Gallery Canvas Wrap Color:Black The Bohemian Waxwing was one

The Bohemian Waxwing was one of Glen's favourite winter subjects — a bird whose plumage is almost impossibly refined

the land merely the horizon line that gives the clouds their scale

the small apples still hanging

herbarium-page quality

in the middle of the road

The Apple Orchard — Gallery Canvas Wrap Color:Black The Bohemian Waxwing was oneAn old apple orchard in late autumn the gnarled trunks and bare branches of mature apple trees, the last of the small apples still clinging, the orchard floor deep in fallen leaves. This is a landscape painting about time and endurance: these trees are old, they have borne fruit for decades, and Glen gave them the same attention he would give a large animal the specific character of each trunk, the way the branches divide and divide again, the texture