Swan Family - Tote Bag Size:13" x 13" This 1981 coloured pencil landscape

This 1981 coloured pencil landscape is one of Glen's most expansive agricultural scenes: the repetition of the pumpkins across the middle distance creates a rhythm that carries the eye to the far field

While Glen was outside painting the finished snowman

A chipmunk has found the cottage deck table — it sits between the terracotta pots

where he could watch the small domestic moments — like the one captured here — that nature documentaries rarely catch

Swan Family - Tote Bag Size:13" x 13" This 1981 coloured pencil landscapeA Trumpeter Swan family on a northern lake the white adults and their grey cygnets moving across still water, the reflections perfect in the calm. This is one of Glen's most serene compositions: the swans' white completely luminous against the blue of the water, the cygnets' grey a perfect tonal bridge between the white adults and the dark water. The landscape behind is barely indicated treeline, sky, reflection everything secondary to the family on