Over the Hills and Far Away — Giclée on Paper Print Size:10" x 7.5" This is not a pretty

This is not a pretty winter scene: it is a painting about the severity of the season

A violet — the simple five-petalled wildflower of Ontario's spring forest floor — rendered in watercolour with the careful attention Glen brought to all his botanical subjects

and Glen rendered it with complete precision

the lily pads at lower right all precisely observed

this painting is one of his most dramatically composed raptor works

Over the Hills and Far Away — Giclée on Paper Print Size:10" x 7.5" This is not a prettyA gravel road crests a hill and drops into a summer Ontario valley a grey barn visible at the farm below, hydro poles following the road down, an orchard to the right, wildflowers at the roadside verge. This is rural Ontario painted with the affection of someone who grew up in it: the specific texture of a gravel road, the way an Ontario summer valley looks from the top of a concession hill, the particular blue of distant hills under a July sky. Glen