Canada Lynx Portrait — Giclée on Paper Paper Type:Archival Matte Paper the yellow petal tips

the yellow petal tips

patches of snow visible through the distant tree canopy

the way the branches divide and divide again

sketching the same wing positions over and over until the geometry of the dive became second nature

holding something in its forepaws

Canada Lynx Portrait — Giclée on Paper Paper Type:Archival Matte Paper the yellow petal tipsThe lynx fills the frame a full face graphite portrait, the eyes pale and direct, the facial ruff enormous and dense with pencilled hair. There is nowhere to look except directly back at the animal. Glen rendered the lynx's face with the meticulous graphite work that distinguished his drawing practice from his watercolours: every individual strand of the ruff suggested rather than laboured, the eyes caught with a quality of attention that photographs