Drag Lake Cloud Study — Gallery Canvas NEW This is one of Glen's

This is one of Glen's most intimate and tenderly observed botanical studies: the whole violet clump rendered as a single living thing

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

Glen met the challenge with his characteristic thoroughness

The Life Plant earned its common name from exactly this property

Drag Lake Cloud Study — Gallery Canvas NEW This is one of Glen'sA 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