Brown Creeper — Giclée on Paper feathers in the garden

in the garden

near his feet

This is the iconic image of the Canadian Shield in its most distilled form: rock

The Spotted Owl carries ecological significance beyond its beauty: it is an indicator species for old-growth forest health

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

Brown Creeper — Giclée on Paper feathers in the gardenA Brown Creeper works its way down a massive cedar trunk the bird almost invisible against the deeply furrowed bark, exactly as nature intended. This is the challenge Glen set himself: to paint a bird whose entire survival strategy is camouflage, without making it disappear from the painting. He solved it by rendering the bark with such meticulous attention to colour and texture that the creeper's subtle plumage becomes legible by contrast. Signed and