Chipmunk on Forest Floor — Giclée on Paper Horizontal from playful bear cubs to

from playful bear cubs to graceful fawns

Cardinals in winter were a subject Glen returned to across his career

just the plants themselves rendered with the precision of a naturalist who has spent time on his hands and knees in the forest studying exactly this kind of ground-level flora

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

Chipmunk on Forest Floor — Giclée on Paper Horizontal from playful bear cubs toA chipmunk navigates its way through a tangle of dried grasses, fallen maple leaves, and bare branches the whole composition a study in the texture of a Canadian forest floor in late autumn. Glen gives us the chipmunk's world at chipmunk scale: the branches overhead are significant obstacles, the leaf litter an entire terrain. The blue bittersweet berries just out of reach above add the only colour note to an otherwise amber and brown palette. This