Drag Lake Cloud Study — Gallery Canvas NEW the enormous weight of the

the enormous weight of the animal expressed in every brushstroke

the orchard floor deep in fallen leaves

spending whole afternoons watching the swallows that nested near his Maple

the mask is pressed close to the stones

just efficient

Drag Lake Cloud Study — Gallery Canvas NEW the enormous weight of theA summer sky above Drag Lake enormous cumulus clouds billow and flatten against a clear blue above the Ontario Shield, the distant forested hills just visible at the bottom edge of the composition. This is Glen as cloud painter: the sky is the entire subject, the land merely the horizon line that gives the clouds their scale. Glen made extended field trips to Drag Lake in Haliburton, Ontario across his career, and the sky studies produced there