Kokanee Salmon — Giclée on Paper Art Prints Wild Columbine — Aquilegia canadensis

Wild Columbine — Aquilegia canadensis — the native columbine of eastern Canadian woodlands

The Golden Eagle presented a particular challenge — the scale of it

This is the unenhanced version of the subject — the original watercolour study without the luminous pastel background of the Enhanced edition

one crouched low in its form

Glen painted the relationship as precisely as its biology

Kokanee Salmon — Giclée on Paper Art Prints Wild Columbine — Aquilegia canadensisTwo Kokanee Salmon the landlocked form of Sockeye hover over a gravel riverbed in their spawning colours: the body fully turned to the brilliant red that gives the Sockeye its common name, the head still grey green and hook jawed. The larger male leads, the female behind him, both in the final passage of their lives. The water column above them is rendered with the translucency of a clean mountain river, the gravel below as specific and individual as