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Ingrid Andersen
Brooke Atkins
Elia Basser
David Bentley
Allana Blizzard
Amy Bradford
Rebecca Brogan
David Chrichton-Gill
Josephine Cole
Amanda Colgate
Alexander Davern
Selena De Carvalho
Fernando Do Campo
Georgia Eade
Harry Edwards
Kelly Eijdenberg
Nicole Evans
Rachael Gates
Hannah Gibb
Nathan Grey
Robert Grey
Susannah Hart
Kate Laycock
Allison Lowe
Aaron Lyall
Hamish Lyons Hall
Loralee Newitt
Catherine Peacock
Meegan Pearce
Shantelle Perry
Effie Pryer
Agnieszka Sikorska-Meikle
Alexandra Wherrett

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David BentleyMy Love

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I am a landscape artist, unfamiliar with portrait painting. All my work, however, aims to elicit emotional responses from the viewer. For my first portrait painting, I thought it fitting to paint someone whom I spend my whole life with. My Love is a portrait of my partner, the artist Josephine Cole. Although Josephine is a reserved and quiet person, there is a side to her that is defiant – she readily makes her views transparent to those she talks to.

Josephine has a fiery determination and strength which I wanted to capture within my painting.