Glen Loates is an artist who paints any subject with equal skill. He uses "Prisma-color" pencils, watercolors, oils and pastels for his paintings and drawings. The vitality of his work springs not only from his deft, delicate and detailed brushwork, but also from a wonderful ability to capture the essence of his subjects in their natural environment. His paintings leap to life as he portrays the spirit that is nature. Glen also applies his talent painting and drawing landscape.
Glen's work has been exhibited in such venues as The Alexander Koenig Museum, The Institute of Zoological Research, The Centre Cultural Paris, The British Museum, The McMichael Canadian Collection, and the Royal Ontario Museum. Glen's accomplishments include the publication of three major volumes of his work, The Art of Glen Loates (1977), Birds of North America (1979), and A Brush With Life (1984). His North American wildlife series of children's books contain illustrations by Glen Loates on four themes - "Forest Mammals", "Birds At My Feeder", "Animal Babies", and "Owls." Glen Loates is the first Canadian artist to be represented at the White House. In 1982, President Reagan, on behalf of the people of the United States of America, accepted the painting "The Bald Eagle" in The Oval Office.
Glen Loates, R.C.A, master artist, began his professional career at age 11 when he sketched and modeled the yellow daffodil, used by the Canadian Cancer Society as its symbol for more than forty years. The subject of numerous magazine articles, three books, three films and countless interviews, Glen has been honored nationally and internationally including special commissions, and invitations to join scientific expeditions. 
