Great-Horned Owl — Giclée on Paper aquatic Glen worked in coloured pencil

Glen worked in coloured pencil rather than watercolour for this Banff series

A Western Meadowlark — the vivid yellow breast with its black chevron catching the morning light

This is the painting

The technical challenge in this piece is the grass nest — a hundred individual strands of dried grass

this quiet woodland pond landscape is one of his most meditative and purely atmospheric works

Great-Horned Owl — Giclée on Paper aquatic Glen worked in coloured pencilA Great Horned Owl perches on a pine branch turned slightly sideways, the yellow eye regarding the viewer with the absolute composure of the largest owl in North America. The plumage is painted with extraordinary care: the intricate barring of the breast feathers, the buff facial disc, the ear tufts lifted. The pine needles behind the owl are soft and secondary; the owl itself is completely present. Glen painted the Great Horned Owl across his career