Andrew Denman

Known for his unique hallmark style combining elements of realism, stylization and abstraction, Andrew Denman is at the forefront of an artistic vanguard of the best contemporary wildlife and animal painters working today. 

Born in California in 1978, Denman exhibited an early fascination for art and nature and a degree of commitment well beyond his years.  At just thirteen years of age, he started teaching afterschool art classes for children and soon went on to offer private art tutoring and workshops to artists of all ages. By age sixteen, he was exhibiting at Pacific Wildlife Galleries in Lafayette, CA, at the time one of the top commercial galleries for nature-inspired artwork in the world.  A BFA from Saint Mary's College in Moraga, CA, further fueled his love of art and art history and helped transform his passion into a career. 

Early exhibitions almost immediately following his college graduation quickly cemented Denman's reputation as a noteworthy new talent and attracted feature coverage in such publications as Southwest Art, Western Art Collector, Western Art & Architecture, International Artist, The Artist's Magazine, American Artist, and Wildlife Art, among others.   

Since then, Denman's work has toured nationally with Andrew Denman: The Modern Wild, a solo retrospective show curated and directed by Dr. David J. Wagner, the highly regarded Birds in Art exhibition, and the Society of Animal Artists, which has thrice honored Andrew's work with Awards of Excellence.  The artist is a fifteen-year veteran of the Western Visions Exhibition at the National Museum of Wildlife Art in Jackson Hole, WY, an institution that named him the Lanford Monroe Memorial Artist in Residence for Winter of 2009.  Denman's work can be found in the National Museum of Wildlife Art, The Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, WI, the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, AZ, the Nature in Art Museum, Gloucester, England, and numerous private collections around the world.  He is currently represented by Astoria Fine Art in Jackson Hole, WY, Sanders Galleries in Tucson, AZ, and The Gallery at Sculpture by the Lakes, Dorset, England.  Denman offers regular workshops at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum and is a frequent returning guest instructor with the Susan Kathleen Black Foundation Annual Workshop in Dubois, WY.   

The artist maintains Denman Studios at his Arizona home, which he shares with partner and fellow artist Guy Combes and constant canine companions Ella and Enzi.