Waterfall Valley

Painted 12 years ago during art school, this artwork the single surviving work of a series that explored connection to place through romance, nostalgia and the glorification of landscape and how these ideas are grounded and muted, at constant odds with memory and the rational mind.

This work is the surviving canvas of a triptych depicting the wild country of the Waterfall Valley, which connects Tasmania's famous Cradle Mountain to its sister peak Barn Bluff.

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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.