Mourning Dove — Gallery Canvas Flowers and Plants Glen Loates' Black-Eyed Susan study

Glen Loates' Black-Eyed Susan study — a field of summer wildflowers rendered in his signature botanical watercolour style — printed in full colour on a heavyweight cotton canvas bag

no distracting background

a damselfly perched at the top

A still beaver pond opens onto a horizon of wine-coloured hills

This loon portrait carries the weight of all that association — Glen painted it as someone who had heard that call on Ontario lakes from childhood

Mourning Dove — Gallery Canvas Flowers and Plants Glen Loates' Black-Eyed Susan studyA 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