Kenopsia

Birds call overhead. The cold wind swirls and bristles the hairs of your ear. The sun rises to a grey day. Shafts of golden light stretch out fingers to crack the knuckles of the day. The glass pillars of the city stand quiet and alone. Something is missing. It is quiet. Your neck jerks towards a familiar voice you swear you heard. A few pigeons look up at you with expectant surprise.

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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.