Janet and Stephanie Martin, owners of The Studio Shop Gallery in Burlingame are celebrating 110 years of art on the Peninsula. One-hundred percent is enough in any business, yet these two and their stunning gallery go way beyond.

“We want to be your art place,” Janet Martin said.

“You come in and have fun,” daughter-in-law Stephanie Martin said.

I’ve seen some museums that feel little more than a gallery. How refreshing to enter a local gallery that feels more like a museum in the best sense. Not stuffy, nor pretentious, just lively and their favorite operative word is “fun.”

The space is luminous and so is the artwork for their “Forever Young” celebratory exhibition through Sept. 30.

A 6-foot-tall blue translucent resin statue by Joan Benefiel flanks the entry. One full wall carries

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