Cougar Basking — Gallery Canvas scarves Glen Loates is a member

Glen Loates is a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts whose bird studies extend across all of Canada's ecological regions

and Glen was aware of that dimension when he painted it

and this painting shows what that kind of reference produces: the specific weight and proportion of the animal

extraordinary

This 1985 watercolour is deceptively simple: the duck is rendered with complete precision

Cougar Basking — Gallery Canvas scarves Glen Loates is a memberA cougar at rest in tall grass fully recumbent, paws forward, eyes half lidded in the heat. This graphite pencil study, dated 1995, shows Glen working in pure drawing: the cougar's form dissolving at the edges into loose gestural marks that suggest grass and heat shimmer without defining them precisely. Where the Cougar painting demonstrates anatomical power and formal authority, this study demonstrates something rarer an animal at ease, the predator