Canada Lynx with Ruffed Grouse — Gallery Canvas For her this Saw-whet Owl in autumn

this Saw-whet Owl in autumn maple is one of his most subtly composed and atmospherically rich owl paintings

ears cocked

the lichen-covered tundra rock below providing the only warm colour in the painting

This 1986 watercolour is one of Glen's most luminous and warmly coloured bird-and-botanical compositions

the whole scene in the blue-white palette of a clear winter day

Canada Lynx with Ruffed Grouse — Gallery Canvas For her this Saw-whet Owl in autumnA Canada Lynx crouches over a Ruffed Grouse in fresh snow possessive, watchful, a few loose feathers drifting from the hunt. Glen painted the predator prey relationship without flinching: the grouse's wing splayed at an impossible angle, the lynx's amber eye holding both satisfaction and wariness. The snow around the scene carries the tracks and impressions of the chase that just ended. Glen spent his career studying how animals actually live not the