A Canadian Shield island in a northern lake — a single white pine bent by decades of prevailing wind, the lichen-covered granite below it, the dark treeline of the mainland behind, a summer storm cloud building above. This is the iconic image of the Canadian Shield in its most distilled form: rock, pine, water, sky, and the particular light of a threatening afternoon in August.

Glen worked in coloured pencil for this piece, and the medium is ideal for the subject — the texture of the lichen on the granite, the individual needles of the wind-sculpted pine, the layered depth of the sky can all be built up in coloured pencil in a way that rewards the closest viewing. This painting is a tribute to a landscape that defined much of Glen's outdoor practice and much of his artistic identity. Glen Loates is a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts; this is one of his finest and most emblematic landscape works.

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.