Purple Heron — Bag square-scarf A Robin in full song

A Robin in full song on an apple blossom branch — the orange-red breast vivid against the white and pink of the flowers

the way the fur compresses differently at the joints

the medium Glen is most celebrated for

a companion flower opens at centre

the individual needles of the wind-sculpted pine

Purple Heron — Bag square-scarf A Robin in full songA Purple Heron stalks the shallows the body folded forward in the hunting crouch, neck extended, the slate blue and russet plumage vivid against the pale grasses of the reed margin. This is not a North American subject: the Purple Heron is a European and African species, and this painting shows Glen working from observation beyond his home territory. The anatomy is exact the distinctive thin neck, the streaked rufous of the head and neck, the blue