Saw-Whet Owl in Maple Tree — Framed Piece Mat:Black Glen Loates is a member

Glen Loates is a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts whose waterfowl paintings are prized in collections across North America

his raccoon studies are among his most behaviorally precise mammal works

It is the kind of scene any Canadian who has paddled north in late September knows by heart

this raccoon family watercolour is one of his most ambitious and warmly received small mammal compositions

Saw-Whet Owl in Maple Tree — Framed Piece Mat:Black Glen Loates is a memberA Saw whet Owl perched in a maple in autumn the tiny owl surrounded by turning maple leaves, some still green, some gold, some already brown and falling, the bird completely still and watching from the cover the leaves provide. This is one of Glen's most painterly owl compositions: the leaves are given as much weight as the bird, the composition requiring the viewer to find the owl within the autumn foliage rather than having it presented front and