Chipmunk — Gallery Canvas Canada not a generic tree

not a generic tree

This 1981 watercolour does not sentimentalize the scene: the eagle is not heroic or menacing

a summer storm cloud building above

the animal's alert attention — it is watching something outside the frame — giving the composition its tension

This 1982 watercolour is an exercise in raptor authority — the hawk owns the branch

Chipmunk — Gallery Canvas Canada not a generic treeA chipmunk among autumn oak leaves maple foliage golden above, dried leaves and blue bittersweet berries scattered on the forest floor below. This 1982 watercolour is characteristic of Glen at his most observational: the chipmunk is almost incidental in its own painting, the forest floor given equal weight and attention. Every leaf is an individual leaf, every twig placed where gravity and autumn decay would place it. Glen believed the background was