Mourning Dove — Giclée on Paper Artwork Glen Loates is a member

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

Glen approached the marine environment with the same discipline he brought to Canadian forest subjects — the coral and anemone species are identifiable

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The composition is spare and tense

This is not a portrait of innocence but of early competence

Mourning Dove — Giclée on Paper Artwork Glen Loates is a memberA Mourning Dove nests among rhododendron branches the warm buff brown plumage pressed close to the ground, the iridescent neck patch just visible, the bird completely still in the specific stillness of an incubating bird. This 1986 watercolour is a study in patient attention: the dove is fully aware of the observer but committed to the nest. The rhododendron leaves and fallen petals are rendered with botanical precision. Glen observed nesting birds