Purple Heron — Bag square-scarf the wings spread in the

the wings spread in the full soaring posture

the country lies beneath

the medium Glen is most celebrated for

A Robin in full song on an apple blossom branch — the orange-red breast vivid against the white and pink of the flowers

the individual needles of the wind-sculpted pine

Purple Heron — Bag square-scarf the wings spread in theA Purple Heron stalks the shallows the body folded forward in the hunting crouch, neck extended, the slate blue and russet plumage vivid against the pale grasses of the reed margin. This is not a North American subject: the Purple Heron is a European and African species, and this painting shows Glen working from observation beyond his home territory. The anatomy is exact the distinctive thin neck, the streaked rufous of the head and neck, the blue