Eastern Gray Squirrels — Framed Piece Original the medium Glen is most

the medium Glen is most celebrated for

not a generic tree

This is Glen working as a landscape painter who happens to have placed an animal in the scene — the result is a painting about winter Ontario as much as about rabbits

requires complete confidence in the handling of the watercolour

the layered depth of the sky can all be built up in coloured pencil in a way that rewards the closest viewing

Eastern Gray Squirrels — Framed Piece Original the medium Glen is mostTwo Eastern Gray Squirrels in a massive autumn oak one grey, one black (the melanistic form common in Ontario), both navigating the great forking branches of a tree that Glen rendered with the same attention he gave the animals. This 1984 watercolour is one of his most architecturally ambitious compositions: the oak's bark and branch structure take up most of the canvas, the remaining autumn leaves carefully placed, the squirrels integrated into the