Cloud Bank — Giclée on Paper Watercolor his botanical studies in coloured

his botanical studies in coloured pencil are among the most technically precise in his catalogue

He is a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts whose bird watercolours have been collected across North America for five decades

and the familiarity shows

demanding the kind of close observation he devoted his career to

But this piece belongs to a different category

Cloud Bank — Giclée on Paper Watercolor his botanical studies in colouredA winter valley view from an elevated vantage forested ridges receding into a purple grey cloud bank, patches of snow visible through the distant tree canopy, the foreground spruce and bare deciduous trees rendered in deep coloured pencil strokes. This is the northern Canadian landscape at its most expansive and its most austere. Glen made this piece in coloured pencil, working with the medium's characteristic texture to suggest the depth of a cold