Biog
With those halcyon days at an end, Glen moved into journalism. It was an accident, but the commissions started rolling in. Her previous experience had resulted in a natural empathy with artists of all kinds, which editors were quick to exploit with a host of celebrity interviews.
Ever the keen gardener, Glen greened-up her fingers when she married into a gardening family in 1983. Her father-in-law was a dedicated nurseryman of the old school, who had formerly grown runner beans for Harrods and now owned the local garden centre. Gardening features were a logical progression, and Glen is best known for her popular and long running columns in Woman's Weekly, where she chronicled the ups and downs of restoring her Berkshire garden and later unleashed a wicked side in her "Wry Smile" column, which ran parallel with Terry Wogan's "Wit and Wisdom".
She now lives in Devon, where she writes, lectures on gardening and writing and plays with her camera. Inspired by her new surroundings, Glen now shares her photographic interests with the launch of these unique limited edition prints. She is happy to undertake personal commissions and restorative work on treasured photographs.
She is 55, but only on the outside. She has one husband, one daughter and one overdraft, but two dogs. She still loves gardening, still misses the music business and still doesn't know what she wants to be when she grows up.
MAGAZINE CREDITS: Active Life, Amateur Gardening, Annabel, Bella, Chat, Company Digest, County, Country Landowner, The English Garden, Feng Shui for Modern Living, The Gardener, Garden Answers, Gardens Made Easy, Goldlife, Heritage, Home, Home and Life, House Beautiful, The Lady, Monocle, Practical Gardening, Surrey County, Thatched Living, Woman's Weekly, Your Garden, Yours.
NEWSPAPER CREDITS: Bracknell Herald and Post, Bracknell News Extra, The Mail on Sunday, Rotherwick News, The Mirror, The Sunday Mirror, Wokingham Times. Many stories covered by various local press, nationwide, provision of source material.
RADIO: "Backchat", BBC Cymru, re feature "Where Spirits Walk", written for Heritage Magazine.
Same, re "Encore" - the rebuilding of the Globe Theatre, also written for Heritage.
TV: BBC 1. Interview, Edwina Curry.
Guest slot: "Planted" with Andy Sturgeon. Visage Productions/Carlton.
ROAD SHOWS: Panelist, Gardener's Question Time, Heart of England Productions.
CELEBRITY INTERVIEWS: George Baker, Michael Barratt, Lord Bath, Lionel Blair, Faith Brown, Earl of Cardigan, Julian Clary, George Cole, Tom Conti, George Courtauld, Edwina Currie, Gabrielle Drake, Nyree Dawn Porter, Sir Edmund Fairfax-Lucy, Adam Faith, Stephen Fry, Ruthie Henshall, Robert Kilroy-Silk, Kenny Lynch, Ruth Madoc, Peggy Mount, Anthony Newley, Kate O'Mara, Michael Palin, John Pertwee, Julian Pettifer, Sian Phillips, Mike Read, Monty Roberts, Anne Robinson, Patricia Routledge, Marchioness of Salisbury, Hugh Scully, Sir Harry Secombe, Isla St. Clair, Tommy Steele, Gwen Taylor, Margaret Thatcher, Sir Peter Ustinov, Susannah York, Diane Youdale.