Calgary Foothills — Gallery Canvas Print Size:10.5" x 14" the long tail: every element

the long tail: every element of the male pheasant's remarkable appearance rendered with the precision Glen brought to all his bird portraits

watching the foraging behaviour that makes them one of the most resourceful mammals in their environment

and the familiarity shows

This is the season Glen observed most closely across his career: the brief window when Trilliums

The two birds allow a comparison of postures: the hovering bird's wings blurred with motion

Calgary Foothills — Gallery Canvas Print Size:10.5" x 14" the long tail: every elementThe Rocky Mountains rise behind a wide open Alberta foothills sky bare poplars in the foreground, a farmstead just visible in the middle distance, and in the far distance the permanent white of snow capped peaks under a vault of luminous cloud. This is the scale of the Canadian west rendered in coloured pencil, a medium that gives the piece its characteristic warmth the purple blue of the distant hills, the pale gold of winter grass. Glen made