Black Bear Cubs — Gallery Canvas Mammals this quiet woodland pond landscape

this quiet woodland pond landscape is one of his most meditative and purely atmospheric works

This 1993 work is among Glen's most painterly and impressionistic — the coloured pencil applied with visible energy

the forest floor given equal weight and attention

Ontario across his career

Glen Loates is a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts whose work documenting the Canadian landscape spans five decades

Black Bear Cubs — Gallery Canvas Mammals this quiet woodland pond landscapeOne cub stands on a fallen log, tongue out, nose working the other peers over the edge with the particular cautious curiosity of a young bear encountering bees for the first time. Glen found the comedy in this moment without letting it slip into sentimentality. The watercolour is tight where the cubs' fur catches light, loose and atmospheric in the surrounding vegetation exactly the kind of contrast that made his wildlife work feel alive rather than