diff --git a/django/contrib/gis/forms/fields.py b/django/contrib/gis/forms/fields.py
index 3c73e12dea..1d61ea0ddd 100644
--- a/django/contrib/gis/forms/fields.py
+++ b/django/contrib/gis/forms/fields.py
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 from django import forms
-from django.contrib.gis.gdal import GDALException
 from django.contrib.gis.geos import GEOSException, GEOSGeometry
 from django.core.exceptions import ValidationError
 from django.utils.translation import gettext_lazy as _
@@ -41,10 +40,7 @@ class GeometryField(forms.Field):
 
         if not isinstance(value, GEOSGeometry):
             if hasattr(self.widget, "deserialize"):
-                try:
-                    value = self.widget.deserialize(value)
-                except GDALException:
-                    value = None
+                value = self.widget.deserialize(value)
             else:
                 try:
                     value = GEOSGeometry(value)
diff --git a/django/contrib/gis/forms/widgets.py b/django/contrib/gis/forms/widgets.py
index c8f9f1208e..9040058750 100644
--- a/django/contrib/gis/forms/widgets.py
+++ b/django/contrib/gis/forms/widgets.py
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 import logging
 
 from django.contrib.gis import gdal
+from django.contrib.gis.gdal import GDALException
 from django.contrib.gis.geometry import json_regex
 from django.contrib.gis.geos import GEOSException, GEOSGeometry
 from django.forms.widgets import Widget
@@ -36,7 +37,7 @@ class BaseGeometryWidget(Widget):
     def deserialize(self, value):
         try:
             return GEOSGeometry(value)
-        except (GEOSException, ValueError, TypeError) as err:
+        except (GEOSException, GDALException, ValueError, TypeError) as err:
             logger.error("Error creating geometry from value '%s' (%s)", value, err)
         return None
 
diff --git a/tests/gis_tests/test_geoforms.py b/tests/gis_tests/test_geoforms.py
index 4b229d8897..4119902ead 100644
--- a/tests/gis_tests/test_geoforms.py
+++ b/tests/gis_tests/test_geoforms.py
@@ -494,6 +494,19 @@ class GeometryWidgetTests(SimpleTestCase):
         context = widget.get_context("geometry", None, None)
         self.assertEqual(context["widget"]["attrs"]["geom_name"], "Geometry")
 
+    def test_invalid_values(self):
+        bad_inputs = [
+            "POINT(5)",
+            "MULTI   POLYGON(((0 0, 0 1, 1 1, 1 0, 0 0)))",
+            "BLAH(0 0, 1 1)",
+            '{"type": "FeatureCollection", "features": ['
+            '{"geometry": {"type": "Point", "coordinates": [508375, 148905]}, '
+            '"type": "Feature"}]}',
+        ]
+        for input in bad_inputs:
+            with self.subTest(input=input):
+                self.assertIsNone(BaseGeometryWidget().deserialize(input))
+
     def test_subwidgets(self):
         widget = forms.BaseGeometryWidget()
         self.assertEqual(