Over the Hills and Far Away — Framed Piece water Glen and his brother Bernard

Glen and his brother Bernard

A tiger in close portrait — the face filling most of the canvas

Glen Loates is a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts whose watercolour bird studies have been collected by museums and private collectors for over five decades

The painting demonstrates Glen's understanding of what makes a landscape painting work without an animal subject: the composition itself must carry the weight

Over the Hills and Far Away — Framed Piece water Glen and his brother BernardA gravel road crests a hill and drops into a summer Ontario valley a grey barn visible at the farm below, hydro poles following the road down, an orchard to the right, wildflowers at the roadside verge. This is rural Ontario painted with the affection of someone who grew up in it: the specific texture of a gravel road, the way an Ontario summer valley looks from the top of a concession hill, the particular blue of distant hills under a July sky. Glen