David Keeling’s most recent works are so much more than classically beautiful. Though one can appreciate the classical references and technical quality, the romantic play of light and lust for a nature free of constraint, and even the awe of the sublime throughout Keeling’s inimitable oeuvre, it is his contemporary sensibility for rendering subtlety that sets him apart as a master of the Tasmanian landscape.
Keeling’s work sustains the complexity of our contemporary moment in a place that is so serene and yet so subtly severe. He paints a restless beauty, a warm melancholy, a slowing of pace and a strange kind of hope for whatever lies in the clearing ahead.
David Keeling’s Studio. Courtesy the artist and Bett Gallery, Tasmania
Bett Gallery
28 October to 19 November 2022
Tasmania
