Western Capercaillie — Giclée on Paper Canada patches of snow visible through

patches of snow visible through the distant tree canopy

Three goldfinches work through a thistle patch — a male feeding on a spent seedhead at left

leaving no room for anything else

is itself a major achievement in the painting

confident touch that gives this piece its unusual quality

Western Capercaillie — Giclée on Paper Canada patches of snow visible throughA Western Capercaillie the largest of the grouse family, a bird of the old Scots and Scandinavian pine forests painted with the same anatomical precision Glen brought to all his bird subjects. The Capercaillie's extraordinary plumage, with its iridescent green breast, fan tail, and red wattles, is a complex rendering challenge, and Glen met it with the disciplined colour mixing his watercolour technique permitted. This European species sits outside