Wooden Pond — Bag Original executed in coloured pencil rather

executed in coloured pencil rather than watercolour

This is the northern Canadian landscape at its most expansive and its most austere

The milkweed leaves are rendered with the same care Glen brought to all his botanical subjects: the large waxy leaves

the whole scene is painted from the window of Glen's Maple

A winter lane recedes into the distance under bare elms and pines

Wooden Pond — Bag Original executed in coloured pencil ratherA still woodland pond in late summer the tannin dark water perfectly reflecting the surrounding trees, a single log crossing the foreground, the surface otherwise undisturbed. This is one of Glen's most minimal and atmospheric landscape compositions: no wildlife, no dramatic sky just the pond and its reflection, the specific quality of still dark water in a forested hollow. The painting demonstrates Glen's understanding of what makes a landscape