Stalking Lynx — Gallery Canvas Print Size:20" x 30" The male's red is muted

The male's red is muted slightly by the cool light

Most of Glen's finished watercolours were preceded by dozens of preparatory studies — sketches of wing positions

and this painting carries the warmth of a familiar subject

requires complete confidence in the handling of the watercolour

the way a single species can carry so much ecological meaning

Stalking Lynx — Gallery Canvas Print Size:20" x 30" The male's red is mutedA Canada Lynx advances directly toward the viewer head low, eyes fixed, enormous snowshoe paws lifting and placing with the deliberate silence of a cat that has been hunting this way its entire life. The coloured pencil rendering gives the lynx's winter coat extraordinary depth: the grey ticked fur, the black ear tufts, the pale facial ruff, all built up in layered pencil marks that suggest both the animal's mass and the softness of its dense winter