Canada Lynx Portrait — Framed Piece Artwork the sense of a moment

the sense of a moment caught rather than constructed

the surface otherwise undisturbed

This 1992 coloured pencil landscape is one of Glen's most layered winter compositions: the depth is achieved through the atmospheric progression from warm-toned foreground trees through cool mid-distance forest to the blue-grey mountain behind

This 1964 painting is one of Glen's most atmospheric early botanicals: the flowers rendered with botanical accuracy — the reflexed petals

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Canada Lynx Portrait — Framed Piece Artwork the sense of a momentThe lynx fills the frame a full face graphite portrait, the eyes pale and direct, the facial ruff enormous and dense with pencilled hair. There is nowhere to look except directly back at the animal. Glen rendered the lynx's face with the meticulous graphite work that distinguished his drawing practice from his watercolours: every individual strand of the ruff suggested rather than laboured, the eyes caught with a quality of attention that photographs