Autumn Day — Gallery Canvas Flowers and Plants A male Eastern Bluebird perches

A male Eastern Bluebird perches at the entrance of a hollow fence post

head thrown back

Glen made this piece in coloured pencil — his chosen medium for the northern landscapes he returned to year after year — capturing the way the Canadian Shield holds colour differently after rain

the cattail roots

and the result is an animal that seems entirely present

Autumn Day — Gallery Canvas Flowers and Plants A male Eastern Bluebird perchesA single maple stands in full autumn fire every leaf a different shade of gold, copper, and ember. Glen rendered this tree the way it deserves to be seen: alone in an open field, holding the light. The original is a watercolour, made during the years Glen spent painting the Ontario countryside that surrounded his Maple, Ontario home and shaped his eye. The technique here is loose where the leaves shimmer, then tight and disciplined in the trunk and