Purple Heron — Giclée on Paper For him The luminous blue-washed sky behind

The luminous blue-washed sky behind them gives the whole composition a softness that perfectly matches the subject: these are animals at their most unhurried

surrounded by fireweed and aspen leaves

A Common Loon with two chicks riding on its back — the parent's brilliant summer plumage rendered in full detail

the brown-and-white streaked plumage rendered with the fine-brush patience that this tiny bird demands

Purple Heron — Giclée on Paper For him The luminous blue-washed sky behindA Purple Heron stalks the shallows the body folded forward in the hunting crouch, neck extended, the slate blue and russet plumage vivid against the pale grasses of the reed margin. This is not a North American subject: the Purple Heron is a European and African species, and this painting shows Glen working from observation beyond his home territory. The anatomy is exact the distinctive thin neck, the streaked rufous of the head and neck, the blue