Bald Eagle Montage — Gallery Canvas Canvas Finish:Matte Glen spent hours at marshes

Glen spent hours at marshes and wetlands across Ontario studying waterfowl behaviour — the specific geometry of a landing approach

this field study is among his most distinctive and intimate botanical works

This coloured pencil landscape is one of Glen's most quietly Ontario compositions: the baled field

The painting works because both subject and setting receive equal treatment: the cedar bark is as specifically observed as the fox's fur

his work has been collected internationally for over five decades

Bald Eagle Montage — Gallery Canvas Canvas Finish:Matte Glen spent hours at marshesMost of Glen's finished watercolours were preceded by dozens of preparatory studies sketches of wing positions, talon studies, head turns, the ways light fell on a bird at different times of day. This piece pulls those threads together into a single composition: the bald eagle in three stances, executed in mixed watercolour and graphite against a soft wash of cliff and water. It is, in essence, an artist's working sketchbook made beautiful. For