Purple Heron — Giclée on Paper For him and his aquatic compositions demonstrate

and his aquatic compositions demonstrate the same field observation and anatomical knowledge he brought to his terrestrial subjects

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

Glen's willingness to study and paint species from outside his home territory reflects a scientific discipline that extended beyond nationalism: he painted the species that interested him

This is not a pretty winter scene: it is a painting about the severity of the season

The graphite study is from 1985

Purple Heron — Giclée on Paper For him and his aquatic compositions demonstrateA 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