Snowy Owl — Gallery Canvas Print Size:10.5" x 14" each placed specifically

each placed specifically

the lichen-covered tundra rock below providing the only warm colour in the painting

Glen painted roadside wildflower communities — the mixed-species assemblages that grow along Ontario back roads in July — with the awareness of someone who had stopped to look at them carefully

This is not a decorative image

the proboscis

Snowy Owl — Gallery Canvas Print Size:10.5" x 14" each placed specificallyA 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.