Chipmunk on Forest Floor — Framed Piece Artwork The Honkers — Canada Geese

The Honkers — Canada Geese — were one of Glen's most-painted subjects

This painting tells the other half

gives this piece a quality of intimate observation

for a ten-year-old boy who helped build the subject

the protruding stamens that give the flower its characteristic fringed appearance

Chipmunk on Forest Floor — Framed Piece Artwork The Honkers — Canada GeeseA chipmunk navigates its way through a tangle of dried grasses, fallen maple leaves, and bare branches the whole composition a study in the texture of a Canadian forest floor in late autumn. Glen gives us the chipmunk's world at chipmunk scale: the branches overhead are significant obstacles, the leaf litter an entire terrain. The blue bittersweet berries just out of reach above add the only colour note to an otherwise amber and brown palette. This