Wooden Pond — Bag Original Three blue jays at a

Three blue jays at a backyard feeder on a winter morning — one launching in with wings fully spread and fanned

This is the northern Canadian landscape at its most expansive and its most austere

Glen Loates is a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts whose large mammal studies are among the most powerful in Canadian wildlife art

Two Timber Wolves — one black

Wooden Pond — Bag Original Three blue jays at aA 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