'Yesterday I finished this painting of part of Cheyne Walk Gardens, painted over about five days. I find that often one painting leads onto the next and this was inspired by the last painting where I painted these houses in the distance from Battersea Park. Also when I walked past I just loved the yellow tree and the flowers growing along the Embankment Gardens. And the incredible grandeur of the houses and the colours of the bricks, and I was charmed by a visit from the Canada geese, come over from the nearby river!
To get there I would walk down Oakley Street and would remember when my friend Marcia’s mother lived there, and strangely it was Jem and Marcia who had lived in Calthorpe Street which was the scene of my last night painting, and I remembered the wonderful Pogues record, misty morning, Albert Bridge, which has young Jem and Marcia on the cover!'
Melissa Scott-Miller, July 2024
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