Calgary Foothills — Giclée on Paper Original holding the light

holding the light

This is one of Glen's finest freshwater predator-prey studies: both animals rendered with the same careful attention

and Glen does not flinch

and how chickadee plumage holds its crispness even when everything around them is soft

Calgary Foothills — Giclée on Paper Original holding the lightThe 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