Glen Green was born in North Vancouver where he has continued to work and live with his family. Glen is a self-taught artist who enjoys painting a variety of subjects but is always drawn back to painting people, specifically sports personalities. He calls these works “Sportraits.” In these mood paintings, the artist has a real gift for capturing his subjects in reflective moments. Because Glen has played sports his whole life and remains active today, he also accurately observes the athletes movements in his dynamic action paintings.
Glen was commissioned by The Royal Canadian Mint to design twelve Canadian circulation quarters featuring ten Olympic and two Paralympics sports. These coins were released in the three years leading up to the 2010 games in Vancouver/Whistler. There are 264 million of these coins in circulation.
Recently, Glen was once again commissioned by The Royal Canadian Mint to produce two Wayne Gretzky coins. He has also been asked by the Canucks to paint their “Ring of Honour” inductees as well as Markus Naslund upon his jersey number retirement. The original paintings were presented to each player at centre ice.