Cottage Visitor — Framed Piece Horizontal the lichen-covered tundra rock below

the lichen-covered tundra rock below providing the only warm colour in the painting

the blue hill in the background — it is a view from any number of back roads in Simcoe or Grey County

Glen's Atlantic coast work carries a different quality from his Ontario landscapes — the salt air

the postures specific and alive

painted when Glen could observe the cardinals that frequented the trees near his Ontario studio

Cottage Visitor — Framed Piece Horizontal the lichen-covered tundra rock belowA chipmunk has found the cottage deck table it sits between the terracotta pots, surrounded by spilled peanuts, cheerfully indifferent to its status as an uninvited guest. The flowers in the pots are painted with the same botanical care Glen brought to his wildflower studies: geraniums, portulaca, chives in bloom. The weathered cedar deck, the summer light, the garden in the background this is a summer afternoon in Ontario, the kind anyone who has