Chicories — Gallery Canvas For him middle-ground colour

middle-ground colour

The columbine appears in Glen's hummingbird compositions as the habitat plant

from playful bear cubs to graceful fawns

The scientific context is part of the painting's identity — this is a specific animal from a specific place and time

where he could watch the small domestic moments — like the one captured here — that nature documentaries rarely catch

Chicories — Gallery Canvas For him middle-ground colourChicory 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