Fairholme Range Banff — Giclée on Paper ducks the bird completely still in

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

A woolly caterpillar on the branch beside the cub adds the note of scale that makes the painting work compositionally

and the familiarity shows

the needles in loose green clusters against a pale

the individual needles of the wind-sculpted pine

Fairholme Range Banff — Giclée on Paper ducks the bird completely still inThe 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