Cloud Bank — Giclée on Paper Watercolor The panoramic mountain background

The panoramic mountain background

Glen Loates is a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts whose bird studies extend across all of Canada's ecological regions

and the familiarity shows

the orange-red of the calyx and petals vivid against a soft green background

his botanical studies in coloured pencil are among the most technically precise in his catalogue

Cloud Bank — Giclée on Paper Watercolor The panoramic mountain backgroundA winter valley view from an elevated vantage forested ridges receding into a purple grey cloud bank, patches of snow visible through the distant tree canopy, the foreground spruce and bare deciduous trees rendered in deep coloured pencil strokes. This is the northern Canadian landscape at its most expansive and its most austere. Glen made this piece in coloured pencil, working with the medium's characteristic texture to suggest the depth of a cold