Wooden Pond — Framed Piece Gift Card Glen Loates is a member

Glen Loates is a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts whose bird work extended well beyond the Canadian species he is best known for

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or a day's belongings — and beautiful enough to carry the conversation

A male and female Cardinal on a bare rosehip bush in late autumn — the dried berries dark and clustered

rendered with complete conviction

Wooden Pond — Framed Piece Gift Card 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