Kingfisher And Rainbow Trout — Framed Piece Framed Prints Glen worked in coloured pencil

Glen worked in coloured pencil rather than watercolour for this Banff series

The open country behind the bird — fence line

the body not yet airborne

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

the orange-yellow throat a burst of warmth at the centre

Kingfisher And Rainbow Trout — Framed Piece Framed Prints Glen worked in coloured pencilThe view from below the surface: a Belted Kingfisher has punched through the water and is diving toward a Rainbow Trout, the air bubble trail behind it and the scatter of small fry around it painted with the precision of an artist who has studied this moment as thoroughly as any other. The trout rises toward the intruder; the outcome is suspended. This is one of Glen's most technically ambitious compositions two worlds visible at once, the rippled