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Friday, November 19, 2010 5 p.m. til 10 p.m. Kick the holiday season off in style and support your local small businesses. Skipjack will be serving refreshments and hosting three or our favorites...back by popular demand! "From Rockland to Hampton Roads"  featuring original coastal watercolor paintings by Virginia artist Shirley Cook.  "Eddies" watercolor by Virginia artist Shirley Cook. Schrimshander Anthony Perry will be demonstrating his delicate art form during  First Friday at Skipjack Schrimshawed antique whales tooth by Anthony Perry "Unforeseen Circumstances": A Novel by Debbiann Holmes MEET THE ARTIST Book signing with Portsmouth Novelist Debbiann Holmes during First Friday at Skipjack Finalist in the USA book awards for 2010 best book of the year in romance fiction! ALSO   Riverview Gallery will be featuring the Norman Goodwin Art Show and ceramic sculpture show by students of B. Kobylinska.    Skipjack Nautical Wares & Marine Galle...

"Boats Docked in Maine" watercolor on paper by Shirley Cook. "I realize now that I am painting again that, although when I was not actively painting, my eyes were open and I was absorbing layer upon layer of images. I savored the beauty of God’s universe, stared at it, meditated on it, drank it in, stored it in my memory, unaware that I would  one day be painting it". These are words expressed by Virginia artist Shirley Cook about her recent collection titled "From Rockland to Hampton Roads" of over 20 new watercolor paintings now on exhibit in the foyer gallery at Skipjack nautical Wares. The collection is comprised largely of plein air paintings created during her last visit to Maine combined with regional views of Virginia's Chesapeake Bay coastline and the Virginia Beach oceanfront. "Lobster Traps". Watercolor on paper by Shirley Cook. Shirley earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts from Indiana University in 1971, and then she went off with my ...

Come and visit us this Friday evening at Skipjack Nautical Wares & Marine Gallery and Riverview Gallery as part of  Olde Towne Portsmouth's  First Friday Events! Friday, November 5, 2010  5 p.m to 8 p.m. "From Rockland to Hampton Roads"  November 5th to December 1st, 2010 featuring original coastal watercolor paintings by Virginia artist Shirley Cook.  "Eddies" watercolor by Virginia artist Shirley Cook. Schrimshander Anthony Perry will be demonstrating his delicate art form during  First Friday at Skipjack Schrimshawed antique whales tooth by Anthony Perry "Unforeseen Circumstances": A Novel by Debbiann Holmes MEET THE ARTIST Book signing with Portsmouth Novelist Debbiann Holmes during First Friday at Skipjack Finalist in the USA book awards for 2010 best book of the year in romance fiction! ALSO   Riverview Gallery will be featuring the Norman Goodwin Art Show and ceramic sculpture show by students of B. Kobylinska and Kevin Turner on the gu...