Wild Sundials

This large, emotive painting invites viewers into a meditative realm, a sanctuary crafted from the intangible and the ethereal. Inspired by the subtle beauty of this wildflower, the artwork is a tapestry of introspection and serenity, an invitation to lose oneself in the depth of one's thoughts and feelings.
As the viewer gazes into the labyrinth of colors and forms, they are encouraged to wander through their inner landscapes, just as the lupine sways in unseen breezes. The painting's fluid shapes and soft, merging colors mimic the ever-changing nature of thoughts and emotions, offering a space for contemplation and inner dialogue.
Through "Wild Sundials," I aspire to create a tranquil haven, a visual metaphor for the mind's journey. It's a tribute to the quiet power of nature to evoke reflection, a canvas where each viewer can find their own path through the wild, uncharted territories of their psyche.

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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.