Crescent

Crescent is an exploration of water and colour. Created by layering turpsy washes onto canvas and leaving the work exposed to the weather, the resulting randomised texture mimics clouds, erosion and sediment. Connecting to the physical world, at its heart is a purely emotional response to both place and time.

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David Bentley is a landscape artist beginning his practice working in the Tasmanian landscape. His early career was spent responding to wild places through representational, romantic landscapes but he has recently reinvented his art making as an abstract expressionist painter. His most recent body of work delves into an intimate and introspective world of yearning, lost memories and nostalgia. By combining new and traditional techniques of oil painting, David's work tugs and pulls at the viewer's expectations of abstraction and teeters on the precipice between landscape and the representational. It is in this vague in-between where his psychological landscapes provoke the viewer into a state of agitated meditation.