Indigo Buntings — Giclée on Paper Cat Eastern Bluebirds — the male's

Eastern Bluebirds — the male's deep cerulean blue and warm russet breast among the most vivid plumage combinations in Ontario's bird life — rendered with the precision Glen brought to all his bird subjects

The Glen Loates North American wildlife series

a negotiation that always ends the same way

Fringed Polygala in full bloom — the vivid magenta-pink flowers luminous against the deep green of the surrounding forest floor vegetation

Glen believed the background was as important as the subject — that an animal pulled from its habitat and placed against a neutral wash was always slightly false

Indigo Buntings — Giclée on Paper Cat Eastern Bluebirds — the male'sA male Indigo Bunting that impossible saturated blue perches below a female on a wild grape vine, the deep blue berries clustering around them, the vine's foliage caught at the turn between summer and early autumn. The male's plumage is rendered with the chromatic discipline this subject demands: Indigo Buntings are not blue in the pigment sense but in the structural sense, and the colour shifts as the angle shifts. Glen caught it in the mid turn