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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Conservation of an unusual historic graffiti ceiling at the Eagle Pub in Cambridge. The graffiti dates from the Second World War and includes names, squadron numbers and pictures made by servicemen, who were stationed in nearby air [...]
This was a project in spring 2015 for the Perry Lithgow Partnership, conserving an extremely fragmentary late 15th or early 16th century doom painting in South Newington church, Oxfordshire. The painting depicts the Last Judgement, typically found, [...]
The Red House wall paintings project in 2013 received a lot of press coverage. Here is a selection of the articles: The Independent The Guardian The National Trust
At the beginning of 2015 in conjunction with the Archaeological Mission to the Theban Necropolis of the Université libre de Bruxelles, the University of Liège, and La Cambre, Brussels, we started conservation work on the surviving paintings [...]
This was a project in the summer 2014 with Tobit Curteis Associates on the conservation on the upper part of a painting from the 1940s. It was part of a larger project to preserve and reinstate the [...]
This was a long term project with conservator Michael Eastham on the beautiful 14th century Grandison Monument, for Blanche Mortimer, in Much Marcle, Gloucestershire. The effigy of Blanche Mortimer is described by Simon Jenkins in his book [...]
