Chicories — Gallery Canvas For him that specific parental behaviour that

that specific parental behaviour that loons perform while the young are small enough to be carried

The columbine appears in Glen's hummingbird compositions as the habitat plant

the mood carries the whole painting

from playful bear cubs to graceful fawns

where he could watch the small domestic moments — like the one captured here — that nature documentaries rarely catch

Chicories — Gallery Canvas For him that specific parental behaviour thatChicory blooms against a soft blue green field the petals almost luminous, the overall composition atmospheric rather than botanical, the flowers dissolving at the edges into the haze of a late summer afternoon. This is Glen in a more painterly mode: less interested in the precise anatomy of the individual bloom than in the quality of light in a chicory meadow at a particular time of day. Chicory was a subject that appealed to Glen's sense of colour