The exhibit at the Jessie Edwards Studio features pen and ink drawings and pen and ink with watercolors by Jessie Edwards. They were done over the fall, winter, and spring of Covid 20-21. The show runs from August 27 to September 10 at the gallery on the second floor of the Post Office building. A virtual reception video will be released on August 28. Twenty percent of the sales from this exhibit will go to the Block Island Volunteer Fire and Rescue Department. Oils by Peter Gish originally planned for this time period have been postponed until the weekend of Indigenous Peoples Day – October 8th.For Edwards, drawing daily through the year of Covid was a way of calming down, meditating. Fourteen of the works are framed and depict familiar island sites and structures. Pen and ink is especially well suited for showing the details of the structures, such as in “Avonlea,” a view of the house on the curve of Corn Neck Road beyond The Kittens, with its details of the porch and windows. “Bit O’ Heaven,” one of the framed pen and ink with watercolor, is another familiar building with its Victorian tower and porches accentuated
