Dear Fellows,
I had intended a short letter as a follow up to my daughter's boyfriend's (Stuart Semple) exhibition of contemporary art, this time the second exhibition, of normal sized paintings, was held in Chelsea. The venue couldn't have been more different from the Brick Lane venue.
The Chelsea gallery was itself a work of art, as indeed was the Agent, Martin Summers.
Marisa and I were startled by Martin's appearance as he was the image of our former MP and great friend Bill (Sir William) Shelton. To explain our open mouthed expression, we explained this to Martin, who advised us that he actually resembled Stewart Granger. Indeed he did as, naturally, did Shelton. Though I had known Bill for almost forty years, I had not noticed the resemblance. With the opulent period setting of the gallery, and the name, I saw, in my minds eye Granger's best film where he played the part of Beau Brummell to Peter Ustinov's Prince Regent.
I was going to describe the gallery, then I realised: Google Earth, SW3 5BJ will show the outside of the building which consists of four houses connected, they are lower right of the page, red roofed with skylights. The roof garden is reasonably visible running along the rear and at 120 feet, rather longer than an Olympic swimming pool.
Type Martin Summers into Google and you will be able to locate the Gallery and Roof garden. It is well worth the effort.
I had seen nothing like it except the Sir John Soane Museum, a house which could well have inspired the idea of the Tardis. The Soane Museum is also worth Googling and is well worth a visit, it is free.
Regards
Neil
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