This was a conservation project in summer 2015, focusing on the stabilisation and uncovering of c16th wall paintings in Ellys Manor House in Lincolnshire. The upper floors of the former merchant's house are extensively decorated with early [...]
A very nice piece about the Tomb of Menna project, where I headed the conservation team was posted on this conservation Facebook page: Conservation Works. It includes various photos from the project from the American Research Centre in [...]
Over the last month I have worked with my colleague, conservator of polychrome sculpture, Seppe Roels, on his project on a couple of pieces of beautiful 16th century polychrome wooden sculpture, in Belgium. The pieces were from [...]
At the conservation department of the Benaki Museum in Athens, where I worked several years ago, many icons were treated, both from the museum collection and in private ownership. I had the privilege of being involved in their [...]
My final project of the summer has been another phase of work on the private domestic wall painting in the Charente, which I have been involved with for several years. It is an 18th century hunting scene, [...]
As well as the non invasive analytical methods already mentioned in this blog (Non Invasive Diagnostics For Paintings) when appropriate, and where traditional sampling can be undertaken, pigment identification through polarized light microscopy is a particularly helpful as [...]
This was a project in summer 2015 to stabilise areas of surviving domestic wall painting in a late medieval private house in East Anglia. The areas of wall painting treated were upstairs, and were thought to date [...]
Further to the project to create an affordable system of multispectral imaging available to all conservators mentioned here previously, A New Initiative, I came across this very good presentation of a paper on ASORtv, by Caroline Roberts. It [...]
To continue the theme of disappearing 20th century social art, see also Vanishing Visions of Utopia, in the last few years I have worked on three covered-over post-war British paintings. All were painted in the spirit of the [...]
Working in Cambridge recently I popped in to the Fitzwilliam to look at the wonderful Egyptian galleries there. One of the mummy cases in the collection has been conserved recently, and, as was well publicised at the [...]
