Over the Hills and Far Away — Framed Piece water Glen Loates is a member

Glen Loates is a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts whose wildlife studies have been collected internationally for over five decades

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 painting demonstrates Glen's understanding of what makes a landscape painting work without an animal subject: the composition itself must carry the weight

The landscape fills almost the entire canvas

This is one of Glen's most dramatic and graphic owl portraits — the dark-and-white patterning of the plumage rendered in pure tone

Over the Hills and Far Away — Framed Piece water Glen Loates is a memberA gravel road crests a hill and drops into a summer Ontario valley a grey barn visible at the farm below, hydro poles following the road down, an orchard to the right, wildflowers at the roadside verge. This is rural Ontario painted with the affection of someone who grew up in it: the specific texture of a gravel road, the way an Ontario summer valley looks from the top of a concession hill, the particular blue of distant hills under a July sky. Glen