Western Capercaillie — Framed Piece not-on-sale one grey — tracking through

one grey — tracking through deep winter snow

Glen painted roadside wildflower communities — the mixed-species assemblages that grow along Ontario back roads in July — with the awareness of someone who had stopped to look at them carefully

sketching the same wing positions over and over until the geometry of the dive became second nature

this is one of his most convincingly grounded waterfowl-in-landscape compositions

all three orientated in slightly different directions with the alert

Western Capercaillie — Framed Piece not-on-sale one grey — tracking throughA Western Capercaillie the largest of the grouse family, a bird of the old Scots and Scandinavian pine forests painted with the same anatomical precision Glen brought to all his bird subjects. The Capercaillie's extraordinary plumage, with its iridescent green breast, fan tail, and red wattles, is a complex rendering challenge, and Glen met it with the disciplined colour mixing his watercolour technique permitted. This European species sits outside