Dave Behrens
Painter (Brisbane, QLD)

Dave Behrens was born in Sydney in 1967 and moved to Maryborough QLD where he called home for 25 years. Dave has been living & working in Brisbane since 1998.

What started out as a hobby back in 2002, to fill some empty spaces on his walls at home, has now become a passion to bring vibrant colour and a look that is refreshingly different to the art scene of Brisbane and the wider population.

Dave has been experimenting and exploring the possibilities of painting numerous organised paintings on the one canvas to tell the stories of a fictional world, its civilization and their values, through the use of symbolic references and combining vibrant colours & textures of acrylic paint and other medium.

“My intention is for the observer to interpret these various paintings within a painting to make their own conclusions as to the relevant meaning of each work”, says Dave, adding that “I want to stimulate the visual senses of people looking at my work and to coerce them into looking at each individual painting. My work is representational of another world, another time, yet some similarities & references to cultures and civilizations here on Earth can be found in my work, so it has some familiarity to it and in other contexts, it doesn’t”.

The number 3 is also a prolific resident throughout Dave’s work as it symbolizes expression, versatility, fecundity, intuition and the pure joy of creativity as well as being a time identifier as it represents past, present and future.

Dave's work is starting to attract attention with acknowledgement through success at art competitions & many people now having his works in their private collections.

For gallery enquiries and information on works available for sale, please contact Dave below.

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Exhibition History:
2004 - May - Sids For Kids Charity Gala - Group Show
2005 - June - Maryborough Heritage Art Festival - Group show
2005 - May - Sids For Kids Charity Gala - Group show
2006 - Nov-Dec - Jam 4012 - Solo works at Jam 4012 Cafe
2007 - March - Thinking Inside the Squares - Circle Gallery - Solo Show
2007 - June - Maryborough Heritage Art Festival - Group show
2007 - June - Choices Exhibition - Group Show
2007 - July-Oct - Jam 4012 - Solo works at Jam 4012 Cafe
2007 - July - Uptopia Art Competition, SunnyBank - Group Show
2007 - August - Numerosity - Circle Gallery - Solo Show
2007 - First prize - Maryborough Heritage Art Festival - Abstract
2007 - 3rd Placing - Utopia Art Competition - Abstract