Mountain Goats and Kids — Framed Piece Frame:Black A still beaver pond opens

A still beaver pond opens onto a horizon of wine-coloured hills

demanding one

This is a composition that rewards looking: the more time you spend with it

the piece has a softness that suits the subject's domestic industry

and this painting shows the depth of that familiarity — the specific posture of a duck entering water

Mountain Goats and Kids — Framed Piece Frame:Black A still beaver pond opensA nanny Mountain Goat watches over three kids on a high rocky summit the Cascade Mountains visible for hundreds of kilometres behind them, the rock below carrying the last patches of June snow. This 1987 watercolour is one of Glen's most compositionally ambitious: the white of the goats against the white of the distant glaciers, distinguished only by texture and proximity, the whole painting a study in the specific whites of different natural