Cloud Bank — Giclée on Paper Watercolor and the familiarity shows

and the familiarity shows

his botanical studies in coloured pencil are among the most technically precise in his catalogue

But this piece belongs to a different category

the orange-red of the calyx and petals vivid against a soft green background

and pale blues that suits the high-altitude habitat perfectly

Cloud Bank — Giclée on Paper Watercolor and the familiarity showsA winter valley view from an elevated vantage forested ridges receding into a purple grey cloud bank, patches of snow visible through the distant tree canopy, the foreground spruce and bare deciduous trees rendered in deep coloured pencil strokes. This is the northern Canadian landscape at its most expansive and its most austere. Glen made this piece in coloured pencil, working with the medium's characteristic texture to suggest the depth of a cold