Wooden Pond — Bag Original Glen Loates is a member

Glen Loates is a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts whose large mammal studies are among the most powerful in Canadian wildlife art

This is Glen with the colour stripped away

This is the northern Canadian landscape at its most expansive and its most austere

the whole scene is painted from the window of Glen's Maple

A winter lane recedes into the distance under bare elms and pines

Wooden Pond — Bag Original Glen Loates is a memberA still woodland pond in late summer the tannin dark water perfectly reflecting the surrounding trees, a single log crossing the foreground, the surface otherwise undisturbed. This is one of Glen's most minimal and atmospheric landscape compositions: no wildlife, no dramatic sky just the pond and its reflection, the specific quality of still dark water in a forested hollow. The painting demonstrates Glen's understanding of what makes a landscape