Cougar Basking — Framed Piece Print Size:48" x 32" the milkweed dependency

the milkweed dependency

each bird's plumage precisely differentiated

the distinctive pink lateral stripe vivid

This 2017 coloured pencil landscape is among Glen's most recent work and shows his landscape discipline fully intact — the composition layered from foreground bark and branches through middle-ground foliage to the lake and far hills

Every individual hair on the cubs' dense black fur is suggested rather than stated — the hallmark of an artist who knows when to stop

Cougar Basking — Framed Piece Print Size:48" x 32" the milkweed dependencyA cougar at rest in tall grass fully recumbent, paws forward, eyes half lidded in the heat. This graphite pencil study, dated 1995, shows Glen working in pure drawing: the cougar's form dissolving at the edges into loose gestural marks that suggest grass and heat shimmer without defining them precisely. Where the Cougar painting demonstrates anatomical power and formal authority, this study demonstrates something rarer an animal at ease, the predator