Chicories — Giclée on Paper Print Size:10" x 9" is a sight most people

is a sight most people have only glimpsed from a distance

This botanical study gives the plant its own devoted attention

the landscape in the particular stillness that follows a storm

Glen Loates is a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts whose wildlife range extended well beyond the Canadian species he is best known for

and Glen placed them accordingly

Chicories — Giclée on Paper Print Size:10" x 9" is a sight most peopleChicory blooms against a soft blue green field the petals almost luminous, the overall composition atmospheric rather than botanical, the flowers dissolving at the edges into the haze of a late summer afternoon. This is Glen in a more painterly mode: less interested in the precise anatomy of the individual bloom than in the quality of light in a chicory meadow at a particular time of day. Chicory was a subject that appealed to Glen's sense of colour