Goldfinch — Gallery Canvas Oil the shallow water

the shallow water

all rendered with the same care he gave his large mammals

Glen painted the working agricultural landscape with the same observational depth he brought to wilderness subjects

summer undergrowth — is painted with the same botanical attention Glen applied to his wildlife subjects

Goldfinch — Gallery Canvas Oil the shallow waterA male American Goldfinch at peak summer plumage launches from a thistle wings spread, the electric yellow of the breeding male almost incandescent against the soft blue green atmospheric background. Thistle seeds drift in the air around it; a companion flower opens at centre. This 1970 watercolour is one of Glen's most chromatically confident pieces: that particular cadmium yellow green of the male in June is one of the hardest colours to render