Pomegranate — Framed Piece Wildlife Where the Cougar painting demonstrates

Where the Cougar painting demonstrates anatomical power and formal authority

the animal regarding the viewer with the alert curiosity of a young mammal encountering something new

The reed reflections make vertical lines that organize the painting's quiet surface

the plumage pattern precise

and Glen painted the bird with the awareness of someone who had heard it as well as observed it

Pomegranate — Framed Piece Wildlife Where the Cougar painting demonstratesA pomegranate branch in flower two blooms at different stages of opening, the orange red of the calyx and petals vivid against a soft green background, the small opposite leaves precisely rendered. This 2004 coloured pencil botanical study is one of Glen's most elegant late period works: the vertical line of the stem, the two flowers at different heights, the composition spare and completely assured. The pomegranate flower is one of the most