Spring Magic — Gallery Canvas Landscapes the outcome already decided

the outcome already decided

the background impressionistic and atmospheric

the precise detail of the pine needles

painted in 1965 when he was already demonstrating the close observational eye that would define his career

Glen Loates is a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts whose Arctic and northern wildlife work carries the authority of an artist who understood both the science and the poetry of these environments

Spring Magic — Gallery Canvas Landscapes the outcome already decidedA spring woodland scene the first wildflowers of the Ontario season emerging through the leaf litter, the light filtering through bare branches above, the whole composition breathing with the specific quality of early May in a mixed hardwood forest. This is the season Glen observed most closely across his career: the brief window when Trilliums, Trout Lilies, Hepatica, and Spring Beauty all bloom together before the canopy closes. Glen's spring