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 Throughout his life Glen Foster has always been building with wood. He began at the age of six by building small boats from the scrap wood left over from the construction of the family home.
As a teenager he built various projects, including a boat. However, it wasn't until after he had finished studies in fish physiology and spent a number of years working as a research associate in a university that he undertook building furniture as a full time career.
In 1986, while pursuing his biology career, Glen moved to the Gatineau Hills of Quebec, outside Ottawa, and he and his wife built their home in 1987. In 1992 he built his first workshop and immediately began producing commissions, as well as his own designs.
 In 1994, he left the university and made furniture-making his full-time occupation. He honed his capable fine woodworking skills over the following years, and produced many pieces in the Shaker, Mission, Classic, and contemporary styles.
In 2002 Glen built another house and a larger workshop in the village of Wakefield, where he now lives with his two sons.
Following a day in the workshop, he pursues his other passion-teaching piano to local students.
 Glen enjoys building in many traditional designs, while his personal expression is allowed freedom in his original pieces. His personal work explores proportion and balance (in both form and colour) in furniture. He appreciates simplicity in form, where fine proportion and the inherent beauty of the wood are explored.
His sculptural furniture use the furniture as a means to display naturally-shaped forms of wood. These pieces are studies in proportion and form, sometimes with the use of colour to emphasize the effects. Shaker tables are often used to explore colour, where the overall effect can be playful whimsy or emotional intensity. The clean lines of the Shaker form are ideal for this exploration.
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