Cottontail Bunny with Violet — Giclée on Paper Oil in the kind of light

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

a plant of forest edges and rocky outcrops that produces flowers disproportionately large for its modest stature

The maple leaves are botanically precise — the specific lobing of the sugar maple leaf is correct at every stage of the autumn colour turn

the texture of the bark

the bird's direct gaze giving the drawing an unsettling stillness

Cottontail Bunny with Violet — Giclée on Paper Oil in the kind of lightA newborn cottontail barely larger than a fist, eyes open to a world it has just discovered sits among purple violets, its ears alert, its spotted baby coat still visible. This is as tender as wildlife art gets: the animal so young and so precisely rendered that the viewer instinctively lowers their voice. The violets surrounding it are botanically accurate, each petal placed where a violet petal would actually be. Glen's small mammal studies of young