Raccoon — Giclée on Paper Paper Type:Somerset Velvet spending whole afternoons watching the

spending whole afternoons watching the swallows that nested near his Maple

Glen Loates is a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts whose botanical range extended from exact scientific illustration to evocative landscape impression

A Grizzly Bear on a rocky riverbank — mouth open

everything cast in the cool blue-white register that the eye perceives in moonlight

A Ring-necked Pheasant cock perches in an apple tree — the extraordinary iridescent plumage in full autumn display

Raccoon — Giclée on Paper Paper Type:Somerset Velvet spending whole afternoons watching theA raccoon forages along a stony shore nose down, hands feeling through the pebbles and reed stubs at the water's edge. The bushy ringed tail is raised; the mask is pressed close to the stones. This is raccoon behaviour rendered with complete accuracy: the tactile foraging style, the way the animal uses its front paws like hands, the specific posture of an animal hunting by touch as much as sight. Glen observed raccoons extensively at Ontario