Over the Hills and Far Away — Framed Piece water The painting demonstrates Glen's understanding

The painting demonstrates Glen's understanding of what makes a landscape painting work without an animal subject: the composition itself must carry the weight

This 1985 watercolour is deceptively simple: the duck is rendered with complete precision

Glen and his brother Bernard

this study page is a rare window into how Glen built his paintings from the ground up

Over the Hills and Far Away — Framed Piece water The painting demonstrates Glen's understandingA gravel road crests a hill and drops into a summer Ontario valley a grey barn visible at the farm below, hydro poles following the road down, an orchard to the right, wildflowers at the roadside verge. This is rural Ontario painted with the affection of someone who grew up in it: the specific texture of a gravel road, the way an Ontario summer valley looks from the top of a concession hill, the particular blue of distant hills under a July sky. Glen