Cardinals — Giclée on Paper Print Size:13.5" x 16" Glen Loates is a member

Glen Loates is a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts whose watercolour bird studies have been collected by museums and private collectors for over five decades

An Ontario pumpkin field at harvest — the great orange spheres scattered across the dried vine rows in the foreground

perfectly camouflaged against the dappled forest floor

The simplicity is deliberate — Glen stripped away everything except the animal and the few autumn elements that define its world

old-growth character — is part of the painting's meaning as well as its composition

Cardinals — Giclée on Paper Print Size:13.5" x 16" Glen Loates is a memberA male and female Cardinal in a summer linden the male's red luminous against the fresh green foliage, the female's warm brown orange blending more carefully with the surrounding leaves. This is a summer watercolour, painted when Glen could observe the cardinals that frequented the trees near his Ontario studio, the leaves still full and the light falling soft through the canopy. Cardinals in summer present a different challenge than the winter