Purple Heron — Gallery Canvas Print Size:12.5" x 16" He is a member of

He is a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts whose watercolour wildlife studies set the standard for the form in Canada

A Screech Owl perches on an autumn birch branch

This is one of Glen's most personal paintings — the subject is not wilderness but the familiar

the petals' translucency suggested through layered coloured pencil without losing their weight

and Glen painted the bird with the awareness of someone who had heard it as well as observed it

Purple Heron — Gallery Canvas Print Size:12.5" x 16" He is a member ofA Purple Heron stalks the shallows the body folded forward in the hunting crouch, neck extended, the slate blue and russet plumage vivid against the pale grasses of the reed margin. This is not a North American subject: the Purple Heron is a European and African species, and this painting shows Glen working from observation beyond his home territory. The anatomy is exact the distinctive thin neck, the streaked rufous of the head and neck, the blue