Wood Ducks — Gallery Canvas Enhanced one grey — tracking through

one grey — tracking through deep winter snow

The composition is spare and tense

and Glen's painting honours that quality

tracking their movements across pressure ridges and windblown snowfields

his female just inside — her eye visible in the shadow of the cavity

Wood Ducks — Gallery Canvas Enhanced one grey — tracking throughWood Ducks the male's extraordinary breeding plumage one of the most complex and beautiful of any North American waterfowl rendered with the precision the species demands. The iridescent green and purple of the head, the intricate white facial pattern, the chestnut breast, the golden flanks: all of it is there in Glen's watercolour, each colour zone placed exactly where it falls on the actual bird. The Wood Duck is among the most technically