Purple Heron - Tote Bag wildlife looking through maples and birches

looking through maples and birches to the lake surface beyond

Two Kokanee Salmon — the landlocked form of Sockeye — hover over a gravel riverbed in their spawning colours: the body fully turned to the brilliant red that gives the Sockeye its common name

his botanical work is collected alongside his celebrated wildlife paintings

Of course Canada's national animal would attract him

his graphite raptor portraits are among his most technically demanding and sought-after works

Purple Heron - Tote Bag wildlife looking through maples and birchesA 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