Screech Owl with Field Mouse — Gallery Canvas Oil Glen Loates is a member

Glen Loates is a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts whose wildlife studies document the full complexity of predator-prey relationships in the Canadian landscape

The masked face

soft in the sun

this is one of his most celebrated and panoramic wildlife compositions

and this painting shows the depth of that familiarity — the specific posture of a duck entering water

Screech Owl with Field Mouse — Gallery Canvas Oil Glen Loates is a memberA Screech Owl perches on an autumn birch branch, a field mouse hanging from its talons. The composition is built from the leaves of the birch some still green, some turning, one fallen and hanging from a twig with the owl at the centre, looking directly outward. This 1973 watercolour balances the precision of the owl's intricately streaked plumage with the casualness of the autumn birch setting. The Screech Owl's cryptic plumage all bark brown streaks