Outsiders

Artists:

Belinda Prest

Saul Roche

Sue Bruce

Three artists, three styles of working in and around the landscape.

Depending on the temperature, wind and insects, Belinda draws while in her camp chair or in the car. She notes down the sounds, smells and events during her session. 

Saul’s oil paintings celebrate the sky and open spaces around Cairn Curran. He says, ‘They are a counterpoint to tea drinking on the Moolort.’

Meanwhile, Sue sits on her rug dreaming of deep times past and tries to capture her imagination of the beating heart underground in lines and scratches on paper.

Belinda Prest:

Belinda was born in 1952 in Canberra. While at the Victorian College of the Arts in the 1070’s she met Trefor, and they have lived in Strangways since 1982. She has exhibited and performed during the Castlemaine State Festivals, taught in local primary schools, and at Over The Moon Studio since the 1990’s.

Saul Roche:

Saul Roche grew up in Dunmore East in the South of Ireland in a house on a cliff overlooking the Atlantic Ocean. It was all sea and sky. Saul is a musician and songwriter. He enjoys regular painting excursions with his friend Peter Watts where they eat sandwiches, drink piping hot cups of tea, ponder the nature of reality . . . and paint.

Sue Bruce:

When she was younger she studied geology. Once she had achieved a basic understanding of Earth Sciences Sue went into various landscapes and was tasked with telling the story of the land. What were the forces acting above and below the surface that created the forms she could see? These stories gave voice to the blasting winds, the splitting and cracking actions of ice, the gouging of water channels and the surface erosion of fire, vegetation and animals. Below the surface, she could see the effects of deep tectonic movements thrusting, twisting, crushing and distorting layers of sediment. These imaginings are the story of her artworks.

Come along to see this special exhibition of painting and drawing by three beloved local artists.