There is a story behind this painting that no other gallery can tell.When Michael Loates was ten years old, he and his father Glen built a snowman together in the yard. While Glen was outside painting the finished snowman, a...

There is a story behind this painting that no other gallery can tell.When Michael Loates was ten years old, he and his father Glen built a snowman together in the yard. While Glen was outside painting the finished snowman, a...

The Estelle - Silk Square Scarf is made in Montreal, Canada, and designed by Michael, the son of Glen Loates. This 100% pure silk scarf captures the spirit of Glen's work. The light, luxuriously delicate feel of the silk complements...

Looking up through the canopy of an old Eastern White Pine — the massive trunk at centre, the long horizontal branches spreading to the left and right, the needles in loose green clusters against a pale, hazy sky. This coloured...

A Snowy Owl portrait — the bird filling the frame, turned three-quarters, the yellow eyes compelling and direct. The white plumage is rendered with the fine-brush discipline that Glen brought to all his owl portraits: every feather an individual mark,...

A field mouse sits on a fallen log, holding something in its forepaws, regarding the viewer with one bright bead of an eye. Behind it, honey mushrooms cluster at the end of the log; a fallen maple leaf and a...

A Saw-whet Owl perched in a maple in autumn — the tiny owl surrounded by turning maple leaves, some still green, some gold, some already brown and falling, the bird completely still and watching from the cover the leaves provide....

A raccoon forages along a stony shore — nose down, hands feeling through the pebbles and reed stubs at the water's edge. The bushy ringed tail is raised; the mask is pressed close to the stones. This is raccoon behaviour...

In the winter of 1989, Glen Loates walked out of his studio into his own back yard, where his ten-year-old son, Michael, had just finished building a snowman.The snowman was wearing Michael's knit toque and both of his mitts. The...

A high vantage over Hockley Valley at the height of autumn. Pale trunks rise through the foreground and frame the view beyond, where a slope of reds and oranges falls away to rolling blue hills. A weathered split-rail fence and...

A field mouse sits on a fallen log, holding something in its forepaws, regarding the viewer with one bright bead of an eye. Behind it, honey mushrooms cluster at the end of the log; a fallen maple leaf and a...

A single chipmunk on a fallen oak leaf, cheeks not yet stuffed, regarding the viewer with one bright eye while an acorn sits at its feet. The simplicity is deliberate — Glen stripped away everything except the animal and the...

A field mouse sits on a fallen log, holding something in its forepaws, regarding the viewer with one bright bead of an eye. Behind it, honey mushrooms cluster at the end of the log; a fallen maple leaf and a...

The Blaise - Silk Square Scarf is made in Montreal, Canada, and designed by Michael, the son of Glen Loates. This 100% pure silk scarf captures the spirit of Glen's work. The light, luxuriously delicate feel of the silk complements...

A single chipmunk on a fallen oak leaf, cheeks not yet stuffed, regarding the viewer with one bright eye while an acorn sits at its feet. The simplicity is deliberate — Glen stripped away everything except the animal and the...

This is the painting. On December 23, 1982, accompanied by Canadian Ambassador Allan Gotlieb, Glen walked into the Oval Office and presented this watercolour of a bald eagle to U.S. President Ronald Reagan — a gift on behalf of the...

A vixen with two kits in an autumn woodland — the mother resting, the two young foxes alert and watchful beside her, maple leaves scattered around them. This is a coloured pencil composition of unusual warmth: the autumn palette of...

Two black bear cubs explore a summer meadow — one browsing pink fireweed, the other watching from among the clover. The luminous blue-washed sky behind them gives the whole composition a softness that perfectly matches the subject: these are animals...

A single chipmunk on a fallen oak leaf, cheeks not yet stuffed, regarding the viewer with one bright eye while an acorn sits at its feet. The simplicity is deliberate — Glen stripped away everything except the animal and the...

One cub stands on a fallen log, tongue out, nose working — the other peers over the edge with the particular cautious curiosity of a young bear encountering bees for the first time. Glen found the comedy in this moment...

Two Eastern Gray Squirrels in a massive autumn oak — one grey, one black (the melanistic form common in Ontario), both navigating the great forking branches of a tree that Glen rendered with the same attention he gave the animals....

Two beavers — one feeding, one stretched up to pull a willow branch closer — caught in the soft light of a summer afternoon, surrounded by fireweed and aspen leaves. Glen made this watercolour at the height of his powers,...

A full-grown black bear tears into a rotting stump, head thrown back, completely indifferent to the cloud of bees rising around it. It is one of the oldest scenes in the Canadian wilderness — bear and bees, a negotiation that...

A snow-covered landscape under a full moon — the blue-white of moonlit snow, the dark treeline, the sky holding just enough reflected light to distinguish cloud from clear. This is one of Glen's most atmospheric nocturnal works: the challenge of...

A full-grown black bear tears into a rotting stump, head thrown back, completely indifferent to the cloud of bees rising around it. It is one of the oldest scenes in the Canadian wilderness — bear and bees, a negotiation that...

A chipmunk pauses on a moss-covered log as a Woodland Blue Butterfly settles nearby — the original field study that preceded the Enhanced edition. This watercolour captures Glen's characteristic patience: the stillness of a small animal watching something smaller still,...

A Cooper's Hawk perches on a dead oak branch, hunched forward, red eye blazing, the rufous-barred breast pressed against the bark. This 1982 watercolour is an exercise in raptor authority — the hawk owns the branch, the autumn leaves behind...

A chipmunk navigates its way through a tangle of dried grasses, fallen maple leaves, and bare branches — the whole composition a study in the texture of a Canadian forest floor in late autumn. Glen gives us the chipmunk's world...

A nanny Mountain Goat watches over three kids on a high rocky summit — the Cascade Mountains visible for hundreds of kilometres behind them, the rock below carrying the last patches of June snow. This 1987 watercolour is one of...

A Screech Owl perches on an autumn birch branch, a field mouse hanging from its talons. The composition is built from the leaves of the birch — some still green, some turning, one fallen and hanging from a twig —...

A full-grown black bear tears into a rotting stump, head thrown back, completely indifferent to the cloud of bees rising around it. It is one of the oldest scenes in the Canadian wilderness — bear and bees, a negotiation that...

A young cheetah in tall grass at dusk, fireflies flickering in the surrounding air. The cheetah's spotted coat and distinctive black facial tear-marks are rendered with precision, the animal's alert attention — it is watching something outside the frame —...

A chipmunk among autumn oak leaves — maple foliage golden above, dried leaves and blue bittersweet berries scattered on the forest floor below. This 1982 watercolour is characteristic of Glen at his most observational: the chipmunk is almost incidental in...

Two polar bear cubs play on the Arctic pack ice — one rearing up, one crouching forward on the edge of a melt pool, the blue ice and Arctic water behind them. This 1985 watercolour is among Glen's most warmly...

A botanical study combining two forest floor plants — False Solomon's Seal with its arching stem and paired leaves, alongside Herb-Robert with its delicate pink flowers and deeply cut foliage. This is Glen working as a pure botanist: no wildlife,...

A Screech Owl perches on an autumn birch branch, a field mouse hanging from its talons. The composition is built from the leaves of the birch — some still green, some turning, one fallen and hanging from a twig —...

A Red-tailed Hawk in level flight, carrying a meadow vole — the diagnostic rust-red tail fanned and vivid, the wings spread in the full soaring posture, the prey hanging from the talons. This 1978 watercolour is one of Glen's finest...

Two black bear cubs explore a summer meadow — one browsing pink fireweed, the other watching from among the clover. The luminous blue-washed sky behind them gives the whole composition a softness that perfectly matches the subject: these are animals...

A spring woodland scene — the first wildflowers of the Ontario season emerging through the leaf litter, the light filtering through bare branches above, the whole composition breathing with the specific quality of early May in a mixed hardwood forest....

A Great Horned Owl perches on a pine branch — turned slightly sideways, the yellow eye regarding the viewer with the absolute composure of the largest owl in North America. The plumage is painted with extraordinary care: the intricate barring...

Two Monarch Butterflies on a milkweed plant — the larger one with wings fully open showing the iconic orange-and-black patterning, the smaller one at rest beside it, wings vertical. The milkweed leaves are rendered with the same care Glen brought...

A tiger in close portrait — the face filling most of the canvas, rendered in coloured pencil on a warm toned ground. This 1984 study is one of Glen's finest big-cat portraits: the tiger's facial anatomy — the asymmetric stripe...

A Grizzly Bear on a rocky riverbank — mouth open, moving directly toward the viewer, the enormous weight of the animal expressed in every brushstroke. This painting does not soften the grizzly: it is big, it is loud, and it...

A botanical study combining two forest floor plants — False Solomon's Seal with its arching stem and paired leaves, alongside Herb-Robert with its delicate pink flowers and deeply cut foliage. This is Glen working as a pure botanist: no wildlife,...

A polar bear walks the edge of the Arctic pack ice as the midnight sun hangs low on the horizon — the sky layered in orange, purple, and deep blue, the ice surface catching the reflected light. This is one...

A snow-covered landscape under a full moon — the blue-white of moonlit snow, the dark treeline, the sky holding just enough reflected light to distinguish cloud from clear. This is one of Glen's most atmospheric nocturnal works: the challenge of...