Brown Creeper — Giclée on Paper feathers while below it a snow-covered

while below it a snow-covered country scene stretches to the horizon: frozen fields

where he spent decades watching exactly this kind of traffic at exactly this kind of feeder

A winter valley view from an elevated vantage — forested ridges receding into a purple-grey cloud bank

reflection — everything secondary to the family on the water

Brown Creeper — Giclée on Paper feathers while below it a snow-coveredA Brown Creeper works its way down a massive cedar trunk the bird almost invisible against the deeply furrowed bark, exactly as nature intended. This is the challenge Glen set himself: to paint a bird whose entire survival strategy is camouflage, without making it disappear from the painting. He solved it by rendering the bark with such meticulous attention to colour and texture that the creeper's subtle plumage becomes legible by contrast. Signed and