Mount Rundle and Vermilion Lake Banff — Giclée on Paper Sold is a sight most people

is a sight most people have only glimpsed from a distance

but what makes the painting extraordinary is the water

this 2004 botanical is among his most refined and most recent botanical studies

the rest of the tree is still summer green

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

Mount Rundle and Vermilion Lake Banff — Giclée on Paper Sold is a sight most peopleMount Rundle rises above Vermilion Lake in this 1992 coloured pencil landscape the great tilted limestone slab of the mountain's east face filling the upper half of the canvas, the lake surface reflecting the sky below a fringe of dark spruce. This is one of the most recognizable views in Canada, and Glen rendered it in the blue violet palette of a Rockies morning before the light has fully warmed. Glen worked in coloured pencil rather than