Purple Hills — Giclée on Paper Print Size:8" x 7" Glen's early botanical studies show

Glen's early botanical studies show a young artist finding his own way with atmospheric colour — the green background is not merely a setting but an environment

the bird's direct gaze giving the drawing an unsettling stillness

the subtle barring that indicates a female bird rendered without overstating it

the winter cedar grove rendered with the same attention he brought to the animal itself

Purple Hills — Giclée on Paper Print Size:8" x 7" Glen's early botanical studies showA hay field at harvest in late summer round bales in the foreground, the field gold brown and stubbled, a dense wall of hardwoods to the right, and behind the treeline a single purple hill under a building cloud. This coloured pencil landscape is one of Glen's most quietly Ontario compositions: the baled field, the summer hardwoods, the blue hill in the background it is a view from any number of back roads in Simcoe or Grey County, made specific by