Chicories — Gallery Canvas For him middle-ground colour

middle-ground colour

Glen observed hummingbirds at the garden near his Ontario studio across summers

This is one of Glen's most ambitious and complete landscape-and-wildlife compositions: the loons are painted with their characteristic precision

A male cardinal drops toward a snow-covered pine

the mood carries the whole painting

Chicories — Gallery Canvas For him middle-ground colourChicory 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