Kingfisher And Rainbow Trout — Framed Piece Framed Prints and the Sonoran Desert flora

and the Sonoran Desert flora are rendered with the same observational precision he brought to his Canadian subjects

Glen Loates is a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts whose large mammal studies are among the most powerful in Canadian wildlife art

Glen worked in coloured pencil rather than watercolour for this Banff series

moving toward a point just outside the frame

the other hanging below among the broad leaves

Kingfisher And Rainbow Trout — Framed Piece Framed Prints and the Sonoran Desert floraThe view from below the surface: a Belted Kingfisher has punched through the water and is diving toward a Rainbow Trout, the air bubble trail behind it and the scatter of small fry around it painted with the precision of an artist who has studied this moment as thoroughly as any other. The trout rises toward the intruder; the outcome is suspended. This is one of Glen's most technically ambitious compositions two worlds visible at once, the rippled