Canada Lynx — Bag ducks Glen gives us the chipmunk's

Glen gives us the chipmunk's world at chipmunk scale: the branches overhead are significant obstacles

the birds he woke up to

The male's plumage is rendered with the chromatic discipline this subject demands: Indigo Buntings are not blue in the pigment sense but in the structural sense

but this Peace River landing scene has a specific quality of place that separates it from his Ontario goose paintings

Chicory was a subject that appealed to Glen's sense of colour — that specific pale blue-violet is one of the most difficult colours to paint convincingly

Canada Lynx — Bag ducks Glen gives us the chipmunk'sA Canada Lynx turns mid stride in deep snow, yellow eyes catching the viewer, the enormous snowshoe paws sinking only slightly into the drifted surface. This 1983 watercolour is one of Glen's most celebrated winter mammal paintings the lynx's silver grey coat painted with the kind of botanical patience he usually reserved for feather studies, every hair of the dense winter fur placed with intention. Glen observed lynx during winter fieldwork in