Ruby-throated Hummingbirds with Trumpet Flower — Gallery Canvas Print Size:9" x 12" Glen Loates is a member

Glen Loates is a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts whose bird watercolours have been collected internationally for over five decades

nose down toward something in the frozen grass at the lower left

gave him the draftsmanship to commit these scenes to paper with confidence

the other reaching for a fat blue berry

large tropical foliage — suggests an observation made on one of Glen's working trips outside Canada

Ruby-throated Hummingbirds with Trumpet Flower — Gallery Canvas Print Size:9" x 12" Glen Loates is a memberTwo Ruby throated Hummingbirds at a Trumpet Vine one hovering to feed, one perched and watching the orange red trumpet flowers large and vivid around them. The Trumpet Vine is co evolved with hummingbirds, its flower shape and colour adapted to exactly these birds, and Glen painted the relationship with the same ecological awareness he brought to his columbine hummingbird composition. The two birds allow a comparison of postures: the hovering bird's