Calgary Foothills — Framed Piece Square the female behind him with

the female behind him with her rust-coloured head and subtler plumage

his bird-and-botanical spring compositions are among his most beloved and widely collected works

A nanny Mountain Goat watches over three kids on a high rocky summit — the Cascade Mountains visible for hundreds of kilometres behind them

its white petals as precisely rendered as the fawn's spots

The wildflower above them

Calgary Foothills — Framed Piece Square the female behind him withThe Rocky Mountains rise behind a wide open Alberta foothills sky bare poplars in the foreground, a farmstead just visible in the middle distance, and in the far distance the permanent white of snow capped peaks under a vault of luminous cloud. This is the scale of the Canadian west rendered in coloured pencil, a medium that gives the piece its characteristic warmth the purple blue of the distant hills, the pale gold of winter grass. Glen made