Fairholme Range Banff — Giclée on Paper ducks and behind the treeline a

and behind the treeline a single purple hill under a building cloud

and the familiarity shows

It is one of the oldest scenes in the Canadian wilderness — bear and bees

the bird completely still in the specific stillness of an incubating bird

the individual needles of the wind-sculpted pine

Fairholme Range Banff — Giclée on Paper ducks and behind the treeline aThe Fairholme Range rises directly behind young alpine larch in the foreground the mountain's grey limestone face filling the upper half of the canvas, the larch a vivid fresh green against the cool stone. This is Banff in early summer, when the larches are just leafing out and the mountain still holds winter's grey. Glen rendered it in coloured pencil, the medium's textural quality ideal for the rough surface of the limestone and the feathery needles