Northern Tribute - Tote Bag Size:13" x 13" his waterfowl work is prized

his waterfowl work is prized in collections across North America

Of course Canada's national animal would attract him

Glen painted ducklings with the same completeness he gave all his young-animal subjects: the specific downy texture of newly hatched birds

the coloured pencil medium giving it a light that watercolour would have handled more austerely

Glen spent hours at marshes and wetlands across Ontario studying waterfowl behaviour — the specific geometry of a landing approach

Northern Tribute - Tote Bag Size:13" x 13" his waterfowl work is prizedA Canadian Shield island in a northern lake a single white pine bent by decades of prevailing wind, the lichen covered granite below it, the dark treeline of the mainland behind, a summer storm cloud building above. This is the iconic image of the Canadian Shield in its most distilled form: rock, pine, water, sky, and the particular light of a threatening afternoon in August. Glen worked in coloured pencil for this piece, and the medium is ideal for