Raccoon — Giclée on Paper Paper Type:Somerset Velvet and the rock below gives

and the rock below gives the eye a resting point

spending whole afternoons watching the swallows that nested near his Maple

Glen Loates is a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts whose botanical range extended from exact scientific illustration to evocative landscape impression

A Canadian Shield island in a northern lake — a single white pine bent by decades of prevailing wind

A Crimson Cattleya Orchid in full bloom — the magenta-pink petals large and ruffled

Raccoon — Giclée on Paper Paper Type:Somerset Velvet and the rock below givesA raccoon forages along a stony shore nose down, hands feeling through the pebbles and reed stubs at the water's edge. The bushy ringed tail is raised; the mask is pressed close to the stones. This is raccoon behaviour rendered with complete accuracy: the tactile foraging style, the way the animal uses its front paws like hands, the specific posture of an animal hunting by touch as much as sight. Glen observed raccoons extensively at Ontario