Cardinals on Rosehip Bush — Framed Piece nature and Glen rendered it as

and Glen rendered it as such

This coloured pencil landscape is one of Glen's most architecturally ambitious: the mountain's limestone face rendered with the same disciplined attention he brought to animal anatomy

the rain-dimpled water

and the landscape behind the landing geese carries the open quality of the northern Alberta river valley: wider sky

This is one of Glen's most intimate and tenderly observed botanical studies: the whole violet clump rendered as a single living thing

Cardinals on Rosehip Bush — Framed Piece nature and Glen rendered it asA male and female Cardinal on a bare rosehip bush in late autumn the dried berries dark and clustered, the branches lifted against a softly graded winter sky. The male's red is muted slightly by the cool light, the female's warmth rhyming with the russet of the remaining hips. It is a composition built on exactly the kind of restraint that separates this watercolour from decorative bird art: nothing is brightened beyond what the actual light would