Drag Lake Cloud Study — Gallery Canvas NEW the orchard floor deep in

the orchard floor deep in fallen leaves

The Life Plant earned its common name from exactly this property

the enormous weight of the animal expressed in every brushstroke

Glen's freshwater fish studies were as carefully grounded in field observation as his mammal and bird work — he fished Ontario lakes and rivers extensively and understood fish behaviour from the angler's perspective as well as the naturalist's

Glen Loates is a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts whose watercolour bird studies have been collected across North America for over five decades

Drag Lake Cloud Study — Gallery Canvas NEW the orchard floor deep inA summer sky above Drag Lake enormous cumulus clouds billow and flatten against a clear blue above the Ontario Shield, the distant forested hills just visible at the bottom edge of the composition. This is Glen as cloud painter: the sky is the entire subject, the land merely the horizon line that gives the clouds their scale. Glen made extended field trips to Drag Lake in Haliburton, Ontario across his career, and the sky studies produced there