Purple Heron — Bag square-scarf while the atmospheric blue-green background

while the atmospheric blue-green background gives the whole composition a jewel-like intensity

the country lies beneath

the toned paper ground giving the whole image the warmth of natural light

This European species sits outside Glen's Canadian core subjects

Purple Heron — Bag square-scarf while the atmospheric blue-green backgroundA 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