Painting by David Clare 387 Artworks Sold

Setting Sun

Acrylic, Canvas, Ready to hang

51cm (W) x 61cm (H) x 5cm (D)

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Ready to hang

A$550

Arrives 17–19 Sep

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Artwork Description

This small painting presents a slightly abstract vision of the Australian bush at dusk, where atmosphere and mood take centre stage. Layers of softly undulating colour stretch across the horizon—muted greens, pale blues, warm creams, apricots, and mauves—suggesting distant ranges fading into one another beneath a wide sky.

In the foreground, dark, spindly tree branches rise like silhouettes, twisting and reaching upward. Their stark forms cut across the softer bands of colour, creating an eerie, almost skeletal presence that hints at the mysterious character of the bush at twilight.

A small, glowing red sun hovers low on the horizon, its warmth contrasting with the cooler tones around it. The bold simplicity of the shapes and the flattened layers of colour give the work a slightly stylised, dreamlike quality.

The painting captures that quiet, slightly unsettling moment as day slips into night in the Australian landscape—beautiful, vast, and just a little bit haunting.

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