Tiger Portrait — Gallery Canvas Canada the way a storm reduces

the way a storm reduces everything to a few dark verticals against a wall of white

the specific green of a late-summer hardwood forest

his deer paintings

Glen brought the same systematic attention to cultivated plants as to wild ones — the orchid presents different challenges from a forest wildflower

every pebble

Tiger Portrait — Gallery Canvas Canada the way a storm reducesA tiger in close portrait the face filling most of the canvas, rendered in coloured pencil on a warm toned ground. This 1984 study is one of Glen's finest big cat portraits: the tiger's facial anatomy the asymmetric stripe pattern, the pale inner face, the amber eyes, the whisker arrangement rendered with complete precision, the toned paper ground giving the whole image the warmth of natural light. The result is a portrait of absolute presence. Glen's