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David Bromley: Young Artist SeriesIt's easy to dismiss the Boy's Own adventure world of South Australia's David Bromley as nostalgic, decorative, feel-good art that panders to the eager tastes of the commercial market.
Peer inside the new beachfront mansions springing up along any of Adelaide's coastal esplanades - or at the walls of everything from the city's executive offices to plush hotels and even elite nightclubs - and you are likely to see one of his sun-drenched depictions of childhood moments, sensual gold-leaf nudes or wallpaper-like fields of metallic butterflies and boats.
But behind Bromley's phenomenal international success and his outwardly joyous depictions lies a darker side.
These seemingly innocent works are the cathartic outpourings of a life both marred and fuelled by addictions, masking the artist's own psychological traumas while crying out for a better world.
His latest series of Young Artist paintings depicts boys with paintbrushes in hand, creating replicas of everything from famous nudes to sailing ships.
Bromley, 45, insists he was never the boy in those paintings. "I wish I was - to be that focused, to be that involved.
There's a lot of jealousy going on with these guys," he says.
You would never know it from the confidence in Bromley's own brush marks, as he frantically mixes a specific golden hue and boldly
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