David Bentley has confessed that he is not certain he will ever put the finishing touches to a panoramic watercolour of Ely Cathedral he began back in 2001, despite the painting’s undoubted potential.
Constantly changing clubs has left Bentley unable to find regular first-team football, or to accurately texture Ely Cathedral’s Galilee Porch.
“Obviously it’s been a disappointing time,” Bentley told Back of the Net.
“I think everyone’s seen what I can do with regards to wet-brushing the syncopated arches or glazing the Purbeck Marble Shafts, but I’ve got so much more to give. I’m starting to wonder if I’ll ever find a club who’ll give me seven or eight hours a day at my easel.”
Bentley’s last completed work, a 2005 charcoal drawing of Arsene Wenger substituting him during a Carling Cup tie, won widespread plaudits. However, Wenger himself labelled it ‘technically fantastic but lacking maturity’.
