Bluebirds In Nest — Gallery Canvas Art Prints when his technique was loose

when his technique was loose enough to feel atmospheric and tight enough to render every individual hair on the beaver's coat

holding the light

this is one of his finest and most emblematic landscape works

He is a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts whose bird-and-botanical compositions are among the most beloved in his catalogue

Bluebirds In Nest — Gallery Canvas Art Prints when his technique was looseA male Eastern Bluebird perches at the entrance of a hollow fence post, his female just inside her eye visible in the shadow of the cavity, the nest below her. This is one of Glen's earliest and most intimate bird studies, painted in 1965 when he was already demonstrating the close observational eye that would define his career. The weathered wood of the post is rendered with the same attention he gave to the birds themselves every grain, split, and