North American Robin with Apple Blossom — Gallery Canvas Wrap Color:Black the ice surface catching the

the ice surface catching the reflected light

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

Glen painted the working agricultural landscape with the same observational depth he brought to wilderness subjects

The mountains above Lake Louise in winter — the cliff faces of the Continental Divide filling the canvas almost entirely

one crouched low in its form

North American Robin with Apple Blossom — Gallery Canvas Wrap Color:Black the ice surface catching theA Robin in full song on an apple blossom branch the orange red breast vivid against the white and pink of the flowers, the bill open, the eye bright. This is a painting about the moment when Canadian spring fully arrives: when the Robins are singing and the apple trees are in bloom simultaneously, that particular week in May that feels like the year's most optimistic promise. The apple blossoms are botanically precise, the Robin anatomically exact.