Painting by David Clare 387 Artworks Sold

Flickering Light

Acrylic, Canvas, Ready to hang

92cm (W) x 122cm (H) x 5cm (D)

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A$930

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Artwork Description

Flickering Light is a large-scale abstraction that translates the transient experience of sunlight filtering through trees into a richly layered field of colour and gesture. At 90 x 122cm, the vertical format enhances the sense of standing within a wooded space, looking upward as light fractures and shifts across foliage.

The composition is built from repeated, rounded brush marks in varied tones — soft peach, muted teal, deep burgundy, sky blue, sage green, cream, and charcoal — scattered across a ground of flowing, vertical striations. These underlying bands of blended colour move in gentle currents, suggesting tree trunks or shafts of light dissolving into one another. The surface feels alive with motion; nothing is static, and the eye is encouraged to travel continuously across the canvas.

The layered dabs of paint function as both leaves and fragments of illumination. Some passages are darker and denser toward the lower portion, grounding the work, while lighter tones gather toward the centre and upper areas, evoking the shimmer of sunlight breaking through canopy. The interplay between opacity and translucency creates depth without literal representation.

In Flickering Light, the artist captures not a specific landscape but a sensation — the shifting, ephemeral rhythm of light in motion. The work balances repetition with variation, creating a cohesive yet dynamic surface that immerses the viewer in an atmospheric, contemporary interpretation of nature’s fleeting brilliance.

Artist Bio

Have been painting in Oils for 20 years, starting off in a traditional landscape/still life style, but gradually evolving to wherever inspiration, and the paint and colour take me. I have Illustrated Children's books, working in Acrylic, however the flow, movement and deep depth of colour of Oil's are truly addictive.

My art is wide and varied, and provides me with endless joy, with the odd moment of frustration along the way. The joy of my art is that I don't put any restrictions on it. It flows, it comes from ideas, visions and sometimes just from playing with paint. The whole point of being a creative person, is to be creative, so I can't lock into a particular style and paint that style over and over. The closest I come to that are my fish paintings, but I love my fish paintings, they are so relaxing, therapeutic and never quite the same as I chase the swimming fish around the canvas.
Sometimes I will start a painting with a particular idea, or style in mind, but as soon as I apply paint to the canvas I see something happening that I simply can't resist. So the original idea is taken over by the intriguing possibilities of the unknown creation that lies ahead. Sometimes that creation is nothing special, or lost in the overworked searches for that magic painting that came from nowhere. Sometimes, that magic painting does come from nowhere, and I stand back amazed and wonder how it happened. My years of experience have taught me to trust my artistic instincts, so more often than not, I am pleased with the results.
I have no doubt that my unrestricted "style" probably works against my marketable profile, but I love the way I can paint with freedom and I cannot wait to see what I come up with next.

Commissions

David's studio is in Brisbane