Cloud Bank — Giclée on Paper Watercolor The painting is remarkable for

The painting is remarkable for the quality of attention given to both the birds and the field: the Snow Geese are rendered with the same care as his Canada Geese studies

the orange-red of the calyx and petals vivid against a soft green background

Glen Loates is a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts whose bird studies extend across all of Canada's ecological regions

demanding the kind of close observation he devoted his career to

and the familiarity shows

Cloud Bank — Giclée on Paper Watercolor The painting is remarkable forA winter valley view from an elevated vantage forested ridges receding into a purple grey cloud bank, patches of snow visible through the distant tree canopy, the foreground spruce and bare deciduous trees rendered in deep coloured pencil strokes. This is the northern Canadian landscape at its most expansive and its most austere. Glen made this piece in coloured pencil, working with the medium's characteristic texture to suggest the depth of a cold