Canada Lynx Portrait — Gallery Canvas Print Size:11.5" x 14" the way the animal uses

the way the animal uses its front paws like hands

the muddy bank — are as specifically observed as the birds themselves

turned three-quarters

the grasshopper's wings spread at the moment of attempted escape

Canada Lynx Portrait — Gallery Canvas Print Size:11.5" x 14" the way the animal usesThe lynx fills the frame a full face graphite portrait, the eyes pale and direct, the facial ruff enormous and dense with pencilled hair. There is nowhere to look except directly back at the animal. Glen rendered the lynx's face with the meticulous graphite work that distinguished his drawing practice from his watercolours: every individual strand of the ruff suggested rather than laboured, the eyes caught with a quality of attention that photographs