Purple Heron — Giclée on Paper For him A Common Loon with two

A Common Loon with two chicks riding on its back — the parent's brilliant summer plumage rendered in full detail

The luminous blue-washed sky behind them gives the whole composition a softness that perfectly matches the subject: these are animals at their most unhurried

and his aquatic compositions demonstrate the same field observation and anatomical knowledge he brought to his terrestrial subjects

Glen Loates is a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts whose wildlife range extended across Africa as well as Canada

the sky and ground barely differentiated in the white-out quality of a true northern storm

Purple Heron — Giclée on Paper For him A Common Loon with twoA Purple Heron stalks the shallows the body folded forward in the hunting crouch, neck extended, the slate blue and russet plumage vivid against the pale grasses of the reed margin. This is not a North American subject: the Purple Heron is a European and African species, and this painting shows Glen working from observation beyond his home territory. The anatomy is exact the distinctive thin neck, the streaked rufous of the head and neck, the blue