Bluebirds In Nest — Giclée on Paper Print Size:8" x 8" Most landscape paintings show you

Most landscape paintings show you autumn from across a field

Glen rendered the intricate patterning with the same fine-brush patience he brought to his larger owl portraits

his loon paintings are among his most widely held works in Canadian collections

This is Glen working in pure abstraction of natural form: no animal

Bluebirds In Nest — Giclée on Paper Print Size:8" x 8" Most landscape paintings show youA 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