Painting and drawing is where Bente started her creative work over 40 years ago, using her photography as the primary source of inspiration for her artistic work.

It was the expanding of the digital world, that triggered a passion for expression through the camera, and launched Bente into her life and expression in photography.

Formalism and structure through composition underpins all of her work, whatever the topic – architecture, plants, decay, industry, nature. It is the interplay of that structural form and the relationship of the material, texture, shape and light that are found in the interior and exterior spaces we move through, observe and live in, that is the true subject of her work.


Bente can be contacted on 0403 177 252 or
email: andermahr@muddleheaded.com.au for more details.




BIOGRAPHY

Bente has provided creative services to the communications, educational and design markets over 35 years. Her extensive and diverse working experience includes Art and Design education, Fine Arts, Graphic Design and in recent years, a greater level of photography.

Bente studied at the South Australian School of Art and Western Teachers College, graduating in 1972 as an art teacher. She spent 23 years teaching art and design in NSW and South Australia. She has since expanded her qualifications with a Bachelor of Visual Communications (Graphic Design - UNISA) as well as a gaining a Certificate IV in Photo Imaging from the Centre for Creative Photography.

Now retired, Bente spends her time focussing on honing her photographic skills and broadening her experiences, linking photography to the paint and drawing medium, focussing on photography as an art form, and working towards a one-woman photographic exhibition in the near future.