Clown Fish with Sea Anemones — Framed Piece Mat:Black Glen gives us the chipmunk's

Glen gives us the chipmunk's world at chipmunk scale: the branches overhead are significant obstacles

the bird completely still in the specific stillness of an incubating bird

This is the natural world's resilience made visible

The composition is spare and tense

the light seemingly coming from within the green — gives the piece a quality unlike his later

Clown Fish with Sea Anemones — Framed Piece Mat:Black Glen gives us the chipmunk'sFive clownfish move through a coral reef landscape darting among white sea anemones, a pink nudibranch, orange star coral, the whole scene lit with the filtered turquoise light of tropical shallows. This is one of Glen's most vivid departures from his northern wildlife subjects: the colour is tropical, the forms unfamiliar, but the observational precision is entirely the same. Glen approached the marine environment with the same discipline he brought