Wooden Pond - Tote Bag Tote Bag where the same observational discipline

where the same observational discipline he brought to wildlife was turned toward the wildflowers of the Ontario countryside he knew by foot and season

the son of Glen Loates

Glen rendered the jays' electric blue against the tawny copper of the oak leaves with the kind of chromatic confidence that only comes from painting the same birds

Glen spent years studying bird specimens at the Royal Ontario Museum

A Ring-necked Pheasant cock perches in an apple tree — the extraordinary iridescent plumage in full autumn display

Wooden Pond - Tote Bag Tote Bag where the same observational disciplineA still woodland pond in late summer the tannin dark water perfectly reflecting the surrounding trees, a single log crossing the foreground, the surface otherwise undisturbed. This is one of Glen's most minimal and atmospheric landscape compositions: no wildlife, no dramatic sky just the pond and its reflection, the specific quality of still dark water in a forested hollow. The painting demonstrates Glen's understanding of what makes a landscape