Wooden Pond — Bag Original This is the northern Canadian

This is the northern Canadian landscape at its most expansive and its most austere

executed in coloured pencil rather than watercolour

and the precision of the hovering bird's wing position shows the depth of that observation

The male's head is rendered in full colour detail at top

Three blue jays at a backyard feeder on a winter morning — one launching in with wings fully spread and fanned

Wooden Pond — Bag Original This is the northern CanadianA still woodland pond in late summer the tannin dark water perfectly reflecting the surrounding trees, a single log crossing the foreground, the surface otherwise undisturbed. This is one of Glen's most minimal and atmospheric landscape compositions: no wildlife, no dramatic sky just the pond and its reflection, the specific quality of still dark water in a forested hollow. The painting demonstrates Glen's understanding of what makes a landscape