We are getting ready for Battersea Affordable Art Fair so the upstairs gallery is a confusion of lists, bags and paintings. There is organisation buried deep within the bubble wrap...honestly!
If you look at the top picture you can see two very long wrapped works of art, they are magnificent drawings by Miles Heseltine, one of which is already sold and coming up to London with us in the van. The only problem is how to get them out of the upper gallery, down the windy staircase and round a corner into the lower gallery and into the van. They are nearly 3 meters long!
So its all hands on deck...out of the upper gallery, out of the window onto one flat roof...
Everyone out onto the roof, get a ladder down to the next flat roof and lower the paintings down...
Paintings safely onto the second flat roof, one of us pops back into the gallery and runs down stairs out of the front and down the side alley while the other two begin to lower the paintings down to the next level...
Into the alley below...
Then they dash back up the ladders and back into the back window, down the stairs and out of the front door, round the back and we all carry the paintings into the front of the gallery.
Its all in a days work for our fantastic gallery team.
If you are in or around London next week, 25th to 28th please come and visit us on stand H5 at the Affordable Art Fair, you will be able to see one of these beautiful drawings and much more, and now you know what lengths we go to in the name of art!
