Cloud Bank — Gallery Canvas Canvas Finish:Matte This is a territorial encounter

This is a territorial encounter in progress: the Pileated

both alert and assessing

Glen Loates is a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts whose watercolour bird studies have been collected by museums and private collectors for over five decades

the mother's posture exactly that mix of attention and calm that nursing females carry

the lichen-covered granite below it

Cloud Bank — Gallery Canvas Canvas Finish:Matte This is a territorial encounterA 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