Purple Heron — Framed Piece Print Size:11" x 14" The pastel background wash lifts

The pastel background wash lifts the beaver off the page while keeping the mood quiet and unhurried

The Capercaillie's extraordinary plumage

carrying a meadow vole — the diagnostic rust-red tail fanned and vivid

in the orchard — and painted them at all seasons

a document of a creature worth caring about

Purple Heron — Framed Piece Print Size:11" x 14" The pastel background wash liftsA Purple Heron stalks the shallows the body folded forward in the hunting crouch, neck extended, the slate blue and russet plumage vivid against the pale grasses of the reed margin. This is not a North American subject: the Purple Heron is a European and African species, and this painting shows Glen working from observation beyond his home territory. The anatomy is exact the distinctive thin neck, the streaked rufous of the head and neck, the blue