Cottage Visitor — Framed Piece Horizontal Glen's Atlantic coast work carries

Glen's Atlantic coast work carries a different quality from his Ontario landscapes — the salt air

the way a single species can carry so much ecological meaning

wherever they lived

the blue hill in the background — it is a view from any number of back roads in Simcoe or Grey County

The fox's vivid orange coat against the pale winter field is compositionally bold and completely accurate

Cottage Visitor — Framed Piece Horizontal Glen's Atlantic coast work carriesA chipmunk has found the cottage deck table it sits between the terracotta pots, surrounded by spilled peanuts, cheerfully indifferent to its status as an uninvited guest. The flowers in the pots are painted with the same botanical care Glen brought to his wildflower studies: geraniums, portulaca, chives in bloom. The weathered cedar deck, the summer light, the garden in the background this is a summer afternoon in Ontario, the kind anyone who has