Drag Lake Cloud Study — Gallery Canvas NEW spending whole afternoons watching the

spending whole afternoons watching the swallows that nested near his Maple

Glen met the challenge with his characteristic thoroughness

the orchard floor deep in fallen leaves

This is one of Glen's most intimate and tenderly observed botanical studies: the whole violet clump rendered as a single living thing

and behind the treeline a single purple hill under a building cloud

Drag Lake Cloud Study — Gallery Canvas NEW spending whole afternoons watching theA summer sky above Drag Lake enormous cumulus clouds billow and flatten against a clear blue above the Ontario Shield, the distant forested hills just visible at the bottom edge of the composition. This is Glen as cloud painter: the sky is the entire subject, the land merely the horizon line that gives the clouds their scale. Glen made extended field trips to Drag Lake in Haliburton, Ontario across his career, and the sky studies produced there