Close Call — Gallery Canvas waves A winter view through birches

A winter view through birches and spruces toward a distant saddleback mountain — the foreground trees dark against the snow

this is one of his most beloved and widely collected works

A boreal treeline silhouetted against a twilight sky — the dark forms of spruces and dead snags in the foreground

The mosquito here is not a nuisance but a subject: complex

Close Call — Gallery Canvas waves A winter view through birchesA Canada Lynx in full charge along a snow covered branch, snarling, every muscle extended a ruffed grouse feather still drifting in its wake to the left of the frame. The watercolour is from 1990 and represents Glen working at the peak of his technical powers: the lynx's winter coat painted with the same fine brush patience he brought to his quieter portraits, but the animal now in violent motion, the composition crackling with energy. Glen understood