Opal Sky II

This immersive painting was created over the space of about a year, carefully layering many layers of runny oil paint horizontally to create puddles. Water and ink have been sprayed and dropped into these colour fields to create splashes and organic texture reminiscent of underwater coral forms. The end result aims to suspend the viewer in a tranquil space of organic colour fields.

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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.