The Sentinel — Giclée on Paper Original This is Canada's national animal

This is Canada's national animal doing exactly what it has always done: building something that will outlast the season

Glen made this watercolour at the height of his powers

the red cherries brilliant against the turning autumn leaves

the orchard

The Sentinel — Giclée on Paper Original This is Canada's national animalA lone White Pine on a Shield promontory the tree shaped by decades of prevailing wind, leaning slightly, the branches on the windward side stripped and dead while the leeward side still holds its dark green needles. This is the sentinel tree of the Canadian Shield: standing apart from the forest, shaped by exposure, enduring. Glen gave it the full complexity of a portrait subject the specific character of this particular pine, not a generic tree. The