Purple Heron — Giclée on Paper For him This is not a pretty

This is not a pretty winter scene: it is a painting about the severity of the season

the clearing sky above

the sky and ground barely differentiated in the white-out quality of a true northern storm

Glen Loates is a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts whose wildlife range extended across Africa as well as Canada

the brown-and-white streaked plumage rendered with the fine-brush patience that this tiny bird demands

Purple Heron — Giclée on Paper For him This is not a prettyA Purple Heron stalks the shallows the body folded forward in the hunting crouch, neck extended, the slate blue and russet plumage vivid against the pale grasses of the reed margin. This is not a North American subject: the Purple Heron is a European and African species, and this painting shows Glen working from observation beyond his home territory. The anatomy is exact the distinctive thin neck, the streaked rufous of the head and neck, the blue