Purple Heron — Bag square-scarf the wings spread in the

the wings spread in the full soaring posture

the toned paper ground giving the whole image the warmth of natural light

the country lies beneath

This is the perfect mutualism made visible: the columbine evolved its long red spur specifically for the long bill of the hummingbird

the medium Glen is most celebrated for

Purple Heron — Bag square-scarf the wings spread in theA 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