Eastern White Pine — Framed Piece Frame:Black Glen worked from sketches and

Glen worked from sketches and observation done over multiple seasons at active beaver lodges in Ontario

watching a Woodland Blue Butterfly drift past

the whole composition breathing with the specific quality of early May in a mixed hardwood forest

Dandelions bloom in the surrounding grass

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

Eastern White Pine — Framed Piece Frame:Black Glen worked from sketches andLooking up through the canopy of an old Eastern White Pine the massive trunk at centre, the long horizontal branches spreading to the left and right, the needles in loose green clusters against a pale, hazy sky. This coloured pencil landscape is one of Glen's most architecturally conceived tree studies: the pine is not a background element but the entire subject, the viewer placed at its base looking upward into its structure. The Eastern White Pine