Drag Lake Cloud Study — Gallery Canvas NEW Glen's freshwater fish studies were

Glen's freshwater fish studies were as carefully grounded in field observation as his mammal and bird work — he fished Ontario lakes and rivers extensively and understood fish behaviour from the angler's perspective as well as the naturalist's

the enormous weight of the animal expressed in every brushstroke

the way the needles group and light passes through them: all of it observed and placed with care

the orchard floor deep in fallen leaves

This is one of Glen's most intimate and tenderly observed botanical studies: the whole violet clump rendered as a single living thing

Drag Lake Cloud Study — Gallery Canvas NEW Glen's freshwater fish studies wereA summer sky above Drag Lake enormous cumulus clouds billow and flatten against a clear blue above the Ontario Shield, the distant forested hills just visible at the bottom edge of the composition. This is Glen as cloud painter: the sky is the entire subject, the land merely the horizon line that gives the clouds their scale. Glen made extended field trips to Drag Lake in Haliburton, Ontario across his career, and the sky studies produced there