Cottage Visitor — Framed Piece Horizontal the lichen-covered tundra rock below

the lichen-covered tundra rock below providing the only warm colour in the painting

in the kind of light that only exists for a few weeks in a northern summer

Once purchased

The mouse's posture — upright

The fox's vivid orange coat against the pale winter field is compositionally bold and completely accurate

Cottage Visitor — Framed Piece Horizontal the lichen-covered tundra rock belowA chipmunk has found the cottage deck table it sits between the terracotta pots, surrounded by spilled peanuts, cheerfully indifferent to its status as an uninvited guest. The flowers in the pots are painted with the same botanical care Glen brought to his wildflower studies: geraniums, portulaca, chives in bloom. The weathered cedar deck, the summer light, the garden in the background this is a summer afternoon in Ontario, the kind anyone who has