Snowy Owl — Giclée on Paper Silk Scarves with its olive back

with its olive back

the venation of the wings

which Glen used for compositions where he wanted warmth and softness without sacrificing detail

The original is a watercolour

made specific by the quality of attention Glen brought to it

Snowy Owl — Giclée on Paper Silk Scarves with its olive backA Snowy Owl launches from a lichen covered rock wings spread to their full span, filling the upper half of the canvas, the yellow eyes fixed directly on the viewer. This 1982 watercolour is one of Glen's most dramatic and formally bold compositions: the white owl against a pale winter sky, distinguishable only by its feather texture and the shadows within the wing, the lichen covered tundra rock below providing the only warm colour in the painting.