A male and female Cardinal on a bare rosehip bush in late autumn — the dried berries dark and clustered, the branches lifted against a softly graded winter sky. The male's red is muted slightly by the cool light, the female's warmth rhyming with the russet of the remaining hips. It is a composition built on exactly the kind of restraint that separates this watercolour from decorative bird art: nothing is brightened beyond what the actual light would allow.
Glen understood that the power of a winter bird painting comes from the cold, not from fighting against it. He let the season assert itself, and placed his cardinals honestly within it. 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 Loates is a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts whose work has been collected internationally for over five decades. Each bag is printed to gallery standards and built to carry the conversation wherever you go.
