Cougar — Gallery Canvas water and Glen's painting honours that

and Glen's painting honours that quality

The electric yellow-green and cobalt blue of the Dorado's flanks are among the most vivid colours in all of oceanic wildlife

This is Glen's graphite at its most patient

The anatomy is exact — the distinctive thin neck

Glen rendered the fawn's distinctive spotted coat with complete precision: the spots are not decorative but camouflage

Cougar — Gallery Canvas water and Glen's painting honours thatA cougar descends a rock face low and deliberate, its mouth slightly open, every muscle of the haunches visible under the tawny coat. The field notes at the bottom of the painting record the specimen: a female from the north end of Vancouver Island, collected in November 1932, now held in the ROM collection. This scientific context is not incidental Glen worked from actual specimens as well as field observation, and the anatomical precision of this