King of the Midnight Sun — Giclée on Paper water and the Sonoran Desert flora

and the Sonoran Desert flora are rendered with the same observational precision he brought to his Canadian subjects

The rendering is exact: the grackle's iridescent plumage is suggested even in graphite through the careful modulation of tone

yellow eyes catching the viewer

The tropical setting required research beyond his northern field work: the plant species are correct

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King of the Midnight Sun — Giclée on Paper water and the Sonoran Desert floraA polar bear walks the edge of the Arctic pack ice as the midnight sun hangs low on the horizon the sky layered in orange, purple, and deep blue, the ice surface catching the reflected light. This is one of Glen's most dramatic and panoramic works: the bear is in full side profile, moving with the unhurried purpose of an animal that owns its terrain, the landscape stretching unbroken to the curved horizon behind it. Executed in coloured pencil, the