AN exhibition featuring rendered and abstracted paintings that explore SA’s rural landscape will be launched at Waikerie’s Rain Moth Gallery on Friday, February 3, from 7pm.

Exhibitions co-ordinator Michael Cox said Riverlander Renee Bell’s debut solo exhibition, Seen, Remembered, Imagined, is “like a visual diary entry, recording Bell’s travels and experiences throughout the past few years, living, working and exploring remote SA”.

“This collection began here in the Riverland in 2020 at a time when she was interested in subjects of drought, rain and physically embedding the landscape into her work,” Mr Cox said.

“These early paintings are more abstract, imagined landscapes that were not meant to depict a real place, but to illustrate a shared experience about celebrating rain.”

In addition to the exhibition launch, ex-Waikerie resident and Australian Test cricketer Rick Darling’s book, Bush to Buckingham Palace, will also be launched.