Cardinals in Snow — Bag For her gold foliage

gold foliage

This is the natural world's resilience made visible

and Glen captured their specific physicality: the way they sit low in the water

the colours overlapping and layering as they do in an actual Ontario forest in October

Glen's columbine paintings document one of the most architecturally interesting wildflowers in the Ontario forest — a plant shaped by its pollinator relationship with hummingbirds

Cardinals in Snow — Bag For her gold foliageA male cardinal drops toward a snow covered pine, wings spread in landing, while a female forages below in the blue white shadow of the drifts. This 1987 watercolour is the image most people picture when they think of Glen Loates the red of the male against winter snow, the composition spare and absolutely certain. Nothing is wasted. The pine needles, the seed casings scattered on the snow, the shadow that gives the drift its dimension: every element