A Canadian Shield island in a northern lake — a single white pine bent by decades of prevailing wind, the lichen-covered granite below it, the dark treeline of the mainland behind, a summer storm cloud building above. This is the iconic image of the Canadian Shield in its most distilled form: rock, pine, water, sky, and the particular light of a threatening afternoon in August.
Glen worked in coloured pencil for this piece, and the medium is ideal for the subject — the texture of the lichen on the granite, the individual needles of the wind-sculpted pine, the layered depth of the sky can all be built up in coloured pencil in a way that rewards the closest viewing. This painting is a tribute to a landscape that defined much of Glen's outdoor practice and much of his artistic identity. This is one of his finest and most emblematic landscape works.
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