Over the Hills and Far Away — Gallery Canvas NEW the whole composition breathing with

the whole composition breathing with the specific quality of early May in a mixed hardwood forest

the overall composition atmospheric rather than botanical

A Crimson Cattleya Orchid in full bloom — the magenta-pink petals large and ruffled

Glen caught it in the mid-turn position

Glen Loates is a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts whose wildlife studies have been collected worldwide for over five decades

Over the Hills and Far Away — Gallery Canvas NEW the whole composition breathing withA gravel road crests a hill and drops into a summer Ontario valley a grey barn visible at the farm below, hydro poles following the road down, an orchard to the right, wildflowers at the roadside verge. This is rural Ontario painted with the affection of someone who grew up in it: the specific texture of a gravel road, the way an Ontario summer valley looks from the top of a concession hill, the particular blue of distant hills under a July sky. Glen