Brown Trout — Framed Piece Mat:Black Two Snowshoe Hares in winter

Two Snowshoe Hares in winter white — one alert and upright

There is nowhere for technique to hide in a pencil work of this scale

Nothing is wasted

hands feeling through the pebbles and reed stubs at the water's edge

a fish of near-mythological status among anglers

Brown Trout — Framed Piece Mat:Black Two Snowshoe Hares in winterA Brown Trout breaks the surface in pursuit of a dry fly the fish suspended mid leap, its spotted flank catching the warm amber light that saturates the water below. Glen painted this early in his career, in 1969, and already the signature qualities are fully formed: the dissolving edge of the watercolour wash, the concentrated precision at the centre, the sense of a moment caught rather than constructed. The golden amber wash that surrounds the fish