Chipmunk — Gallery Canvas Canada the bird perched on a

the bird perched on a fence post with the prairie stretching behind it

the animal's alert attention — it is watching something outside the frame — giving the composition its tension

and distant blue hills is one of the most satisfying compositional structures in Ontario landscape

The trout rises toward the intruder

the sky above fading from pale yellow at the horizon through blue to the first grey of approaching night

Chipmunk — Gallery Canvas Canada the bird perched on aA chipmunk among autumn oak leaves maple foliage golden above, dried leaves and blue bittersweet berries scattered on the forest floor below. This 1982 watercolour is characteristic of Glen at his most observational: the chipmunk is almost incidental in its own painting, the forest floor given equal weight and attention. Every leaf is an individual leaf, every twig placed where gravity and autumn decay would place it. Glen believed the background was