Raccoon — Giclée on Paper Paper Type:Somerset Velvet everything cast in the cool

everything cast in the cool blue-white register that the eye perceives in moonlight

A whitetail fawn lies curled in a spring forest clearing — white spots vivid on its rust-red coat

Her reflection meets her own gaze in the still water

Glen Loates is a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts whose botanical range extended from exact scientific illustration to evocative landscape impression

A Canadian Shield island in a northern lake — a single white pine bent by decades of prevailing wind

Raccoon — Giclée on Paper Paper Type:Somerset Velvet everything cast in the coolA 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 rendered with complete accuracy: the tactile foraging style, the way the animal uses its front paws like hands, the specific posture of an animal hunting by touch as much as sight. Glen observed raccoons extensively at Ontario