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"Thicket"
8 x 8"
Acrylic on Cradled Board, 2011
Bewick's Wren
$950
This piece will be available for purchase by draw in September of 2012 at Western Visions, the National Museum of Wildlife Art's biggest fundraiser of the year. For more information on this event, visit the NMWA website by clikcing the How to Buy link below. More information will be forthcoming closer to the event.
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Bewick’s Wrens are among my favorite local birds. I simply love the way they are constantly in motion, flitting from branch to branch, their little tails flicking up and down nervously. The problem with painting one in any detail is that they are very hard to photograph, staying warily, as they most often do, deep in tangles of shrubbery and dense thickets, hence the title. Several years ago while walking around the Lafayette Reservoir, I had a rare opportunity to photograph one of these birds in the open, but when it came time to paint it, I wanted to honor the setting, or at least the feel of the setting, in which one would most likely encounter a Bewick’s Wren. The abstract background is intended to suggest not only the weave of branches in which the bird is hiding, but his quick and furtive motion through the branches.
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