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Home Available from Denman Studios Available from These Fine Galleries Available at Special Events Limited Edition Reproductions Archive of Previous Work Solo Touring Show: The Modern Wild About the Artist Contact Purchasing Information News & Events Teaching & Workshops Videos Commission Policy Galleries Newsletter & Mailing List Facebook Linked In Links	<Back to Thumbnails "The Tyrant" 16 x 12" Acrylic on Cradled Board2012 White-Headed Marsh Tyrant $2,700 How to Buy, General Information During a trip to Trinidad�s Aripo Savannah, one of the first birds to catch my eye in the dry, parched landscape was the White-Headed Marsh Tyrant. I spotted this small flycatcher relative in a dry field not far from a water treatment facility, where his bold black-and-white color pattern made him stand out dramatically even from a considerable distance. As their name suggests, Tyrants are quite territorial, but I found this bird�s oversized head, jaunty crest, and big black eyes more comical than threatening�but then I�m not a Marsh Tyrant. One must be a king, or in a similar position of leadership, before one can be a tyrant, so I imagined a background that suggested a suit of playing cards; this is the King of Diamonds, and the regimentation of the diamond pattern, the hardness of the contrast, and the lance-like abstraction of the branch on which he perches all suggest the harshness and severity of his reign.
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