Blue Jays At My Feeder — Gallery Canvas Silk Scarves and the mitt lying in

and the mitt lying in the snow where the wind had put it

the predator at full extension

The view from below the surface: a Belted Kingfisher has punched through the water and is diving toward a Rainbow Trout

The blueberries are painted with the same care as the birds — each berry at a different stage of ripeness

investigating the noise

Blue Jays At My Feeder — Gallery Canvas Silk Scarves and the mitt lying inThree blue jays at a backyard feeder on a winter morning one launching in with wings fully spread and fanned, one perched on the roof with a peanut, one at the tray edge. The bare elm behind the feeder is rendered branch by branch; the whole scene is painted from the window of Glen's Maple, Ontario studio, where he spent decades watching exactly this kind of traffic at exactly this kind of feeder. This is one of Glen's most personal paintings the