Raccoon — Gallery Canvas Wrap Color:Black fireflies flickering in the surrounding

fireflies flickering in the surrounding air

Chicory was a subject that appealed to Glen's sense of colour — that specific pale blue-violet is one of the most difficult colours to paint convincingly

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

It is what is actually there

one perched on the roof with a peanut

Raccoon — Gallery Canvas Wrap Color:Black fireflies flickering in the surroundingA 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