The Apple Orchard — Giclée on Paper Print Size:10" x 7.5" the background stripped back

the background stripped back

the fly visible above the snout as the fish tilts upward from the gravel streambed

and this early work shows the precocious technical mastery that attracted his first professional commissions

This is a summer watercolour

The Apple Orchard — Giclée on Paper Print Size:10" x 7.5" the background stripped backAn old apple orchard in late autumn the gnarled trunks and bare branches of mature apple trees, the last of the small apples still clinging, the orchard floor deep in fallen leaves. This is a landscape painting about time and endurance: these trees are old, they have borne fruit for decades, and Glen gave them the same attention he would give a large animal the specific character of each trunk, the way the branches divide and divide again, the texture