Orchid — Framed Piece Frame:White sketching from the lake

sketching from the lake

this summer field landscape is one of his most evocative and regionally specific Ontario works

the whole composition suggesting movement and altitude without a single distracting element

This mystical masterpiece

the blue hills of the Niagara Escarpment in the far distance

Orchid — Framed Piece Frame:White sketching from the lakeA Phalaenopsis orchid two blooms open on an arching stem, the pink petals precisely veined, the labellum orange yellow at centre, the plant rooted in a pad of Spanish moss. This 1994 coloured pencil botanical study is one of Glen's most elegant: the vertical composition of the single arching stem with its two flowers uses the negative space around it as deliberately as any formal arrangement. The colouring is both botanically exact and visually