Pheasant in Apple Tree — Framed Piece Print Size:23" x 30" Glen Loates is a member

Glen Loates is a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts whose work spans five decades of international collection

his botanical and landscape work is held in collections alongside his celebrated wildlife paintings

A boreal treeline silhouetted against a twilight sky — the dark forms of spruces and dead snags in the foreground

When Michael Loates was ten years old

Glen spent years studying bird specimens at the Royal Ontario Museum

Pheasant in Apple Tree — Framed Piece Print Size:23" x 30" Glen Loates is a memberA Ring necked Pheasant cock perches in an apple tree the extraordinary iridescent plumage in full autumn display, the red face, the white collar, the long tail: every element of the male pheasant's remarkable appearance rendered with the precision Glen brought to all his bird portraits. This 1985 watercolour places the bird in a gnarled orchard apple tree, the small apples still hanging, the leaves turning. The composition is formal and completely