News
- January 19, 2010
Discover Portsmouth Center hosts "Bill Paarlberg: Illustrating Portsmouth" for August 2010 exhibit
The Portsmouth Historical Society has invited well-known local illustrator Bill Paarlberg to show 30 years worth of his Portsmouth drawings, paintings and graphic design, illustrating local architectural and historical themes for the month of August, 2010 at the Discover Portsmouth Center. The show will occupy the main gallery at the Center and include some 40 or 50 artworks, many of which can be viewed on Mr. Paarlberg's blog "Illustrating Portsmouth."
A native of Hampton, New Hampshire, Mr. Paarlberg became a Portsmouth-based illustrator, publisher, and graphic designer in the late 1970s. His popular arts and entertainment weekly "re:Ports. Magazine" and annual calendar "The Portsmouth History Calendar" were staples of the 1980's Portsmouth arts scene. More recently local galleries have displayed his watercolors of the North Church steeple and other local scenes.
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