Chicories — Framed Piece Mat:White the waxy white stem

the waxy white stem

and he met the challenge with a soft

and reaching for fruit

the martin house

the particular blue of distant hills under a July sky

Chicories — Framed Piece Mat:White the waxy white stemChicory blooms against a soft blue green field the petals almost luminous, the overall composition atmospheric rather than botanical, the flowers dissolving at the edges into the haze of a late summer afternoon. This is Glen in a more painterly mode: less interested in the precise anatomy of the individual bloom than in the quality of light in a chicory meadow at a particular time of day. Chicory was a subject that appealed to Glen's sense of colour