Chicories — Framed Piece Mat:White the waxy white stem

the waxy white stem

A Common Loon with two chicks riding on its back — the parent's brilliant summer plumage rendered in full detail

the foreground all rock and tidal life

his botanical and landscape work is held in collections alongside his celebrated wildlife paintings

the particular blue of distant hills under a July sky

Chicories — Framed Piece Mat:White the waxy white stemChicory blooms against a soft blue green field the petals almost luminous, the overall composition atmospheric rather than botanical, the flowers dissolving at the edges into the haze of a late summer afternoon. This is Glen in a more painterly mode: less interested in the precise anatomy of the individual bloom than in the quality of light in a chicory meadow at a particular time of day. Chicory was a subject that appealed to Glen's sense of colour