Calgary Foothills — Giclée on Paper Original eyes wide and directly on

eyes wide and directly on the viewer

where he could watch the small domestic moments — like the one captured here — that nature documentaries rarely catch

The watercolour is technically flawless — the wet-on-wet passages in the snow

the chestnut breast

and how chickadee plumage holds its crispness even when everything around them is soft

Calgary Foothills — Giclée on Paper Original eyes wide and directly onThe 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