Cardinals on Rosehip Bush — Framed Piece nature This is the Snowy Owl

This is the Snowy Owl as a presence rather than as a landscape element

This coloured pencil landscape is one of Glen's most architecturally ambitious: the mountain's limestone face rendered with the same disciplined attention he brought to animal anatomy

the eyes already carrying the focus of a predator even when the body still carries the softness of youth

a second male in transitional plumage launching from below

Cardinals on Rosehip Bush — Framed Piece nature This is the Snowy OwlA male and female Cardinal on a bare rosehip bush in late autumn the dried berries dark and clustered, the branches lifted against a softly graded winter sky. The male's red is muted slightly by the cool light, the female's warmth rhyming with the russet of the remaining hips. It is a composition built on exactly the kind of restraint that separates this watercolour from decorative bird art: nothing is brightened beyond what the actual light would