Label & Artist Series
2004 Paraduxx by Andrew Denman
Each vintage, the Paraduxx brand celebrates an artist-label series with a different artist's signature medium and style interpreted through a pair of ducks native to the Pacific Flyway. The 2004 Paraduxx label is the eleventh in this series. For this release, Northern California artist Andrew Denman created an acrylic painting of a pair of Wood Ducks in their natural habitat.
Andrew Denman is an artist known for capturing diverse subjects, including wildlife, landscapes, and still life, in an equally diverse range of styles. He holds a BA in Fine Arts from Saint Mary's College in Moraga, CA. He is well known in the Bay Area as both an artist and teacher and has gained national attention through his involvement with Pacific Wildlife Galleries in Lafayette, CA, the Society of Animal Artists, NY, and feature coverage in such publications as Southwest Art, American Artist, Wildlife Art, and The Artist's Magazine, among others.
Andrew's work has toured nationally with Birds in Art and the Society of Animal Artists, which has honored his work with Awards of Excellence for two consecutive years. Denman's work can be found in the Natural World Museum in San Francisco, California, the National Museum of Wildlife Art in Jackson, Wyoming, and numerous private collections across the country.
Whether painting an animal in its natural habitat or juxtaposing it against an abstract background, Denman goes to great lengths to faithfully portray his subjects, taking frequent field trips to nature areas, parks, and zoos to observe his subjects and acquire reference material. Yet while accuracy is always of great importance, Denman is an artist before he is a naturalist. The sense of fearless experimentation and originality he brings to his paintings testifies to the artist's true focus.
