Every Friday afternoon, for the last half-dozen years, Island watercolorists have been meeting and painting at the Up-Island Council on Aging. Though there have been retired art teachers among them, there has been no organized instruction. The group has simply gathered from 1 until 3:30 or so to do what it enjoys doing — to paint. And last weekend it had its annual art show on Friday and Saturday at Howes House. Although most of the group’s members are retirees, one eight-year-old, Violet Cabot, had a room decoration she had painted for her eight-month-old sibling, Reed Cabot, on display.

Many of the works displayed were summery paintings of hydrangeas and morning glories and water lilies. Others were landscapes and seascapes with boats and docks, seagulls and sands luring the viewer to set off on a boating expedition or an afternoon on an Island beach. Marshall Segall of West Tisbury was exhibiting his watercolors and postcards of Island signs, and Nancy Holt and Sally Flood of Venice, Fla. and Edgartown also had postcard versions of their landscapes and seascapes on sale

Other painters with work on display and for sale were Susan Silva of West Tisbury, Else Membreno of Oak Bluffs, Ann M. Howes of West Tisbury, Nancy Cabot of West Tisbury, Susan Tonry of Vineyard Haven, and Virginia Blakseley of West Tisbury.

Membership in the group, which paints both at Howes House and sometimes out of doors, is free and open to all. It will continue to meet during the summer.

— Phyllis Meras