Purple Heron - Tote Bag wildlife the same careful study from

the same careful study from specimens and field observation

the root structure emerging from the humus

looking through maples and birches to the lake surface beyond

this spring forest composition is one of his most beloved and personally invested works

Glen Loates is a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts whose wildlife range extended across Africa as well as Canada

Purple Heron - Tote Bag wildlife the same careful study fromA Purple Heron stalks the shallows the body folded forward in the hunting crouch, neck extended, the slate blue and russet plumage vivid against the pale grasses of the reed margin. This is not a North American subject: the Purple Heron is a European and African species, and this painting shows Glen working from observation beyond his home territory. The anatomy is exact the distinctive thin neck, the streaked rufous of the head and neck, the blue