Mourning Dove — Giclée on Paper Artwork and the depth must be

and the depth must be built through tonal and colour progression rather than wet washes

The composition is spare and tense

Glen Loates is a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts whose bird studies extend across all of Canada's ecological regions

This is one of Glen's most sophisticated winter landscape-and-animal compositions: the fox placed in a specific habitat

But this piece belongs to a different category

Mourning Dove — Giclée on Paper Artwork and the depth must beA Mourning Dove nests among rhododendron branches the warm buff brown plumage pressed close to the ground, the iridescent neck patch just visible, the bird completely still in the specific stillness of an incubating bird. This 1986 watercolour is a study in patient attention: the dove is fully aware of the observer but committed to the nest. The rhododendron leaves and fallen petals are rendered with botanical precision. Glen observed nesting birds