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ou may see the faces or scenes every day. Boats up high and dry. A local police chief or vegetable seller. Throughout May though, they are captured in a special exhibition of works by artists Marion Adams and John Hanley.

A visitor at the opening reception on Sunday peers more closely at a face in one of Marion Adams’ colored pencil portraits. On the facing wall, a silo scene by John Hanley.

Marion Adams has been drawing portraits of people she meets in the county, whether it be at the Piggly Wiggly or at the Paul’s vegetable stand on Hiway 55. Also among her subjects are Sylvia and Brantley Norman of Village Restaurant and Oriental police chief Jeff Casassa.

Marion Adams’ portrait of Oriental Police Chief Jeff Casassa.

Adams starts, she says, by asking to take their photo and then later working from that for her colored pencil drawings.

A lineup of Marion Adams subjects at Circle Ten.

John Hanley meanwhile, uses oils, pastels and vivid colors to capture scenes around Oriental. Several feature boats on the hard, in various stages of getting ready for the water again.

Is that beeping we hear? “Swinging” A TravLift sling on canvas.

Another of Hanley’s paintings plays on a common sight here – boats supported by stanchions. He says the one in his painting was at SailCraft. It’s titled, “Sea Legs.”

Two paintings by John Hanley: Straight Road Storm and Sea Legs.

Other paintings by John are part of CIrcle Ten’s regular display of its members’ work. Both he and Marion Adams are also members of Oriental’s Plein Air Painters, a group that goes out and paints in the open air around Pamlico County. One of Marion’s other works is out in the open air permanently — a few months ago, she drew the rather genial dragon on the side of the Wits End.

John Hanley and Marion Adams at Circle Ten Sunday. Their work will be on display all month.

You can see the special exhibition of Marion’s portraits and John’s scenes at Circle Ten throughout the month of May. Circle Ten is at 1103 Broad Street and is open Wednesday through Saturday 10a-5p and Sunday 1-4p.

Posted Monday May 5, 2008 by Melinda Penkava