Dating to the 1590s, this scheme, which survives within a Grade II listed building in Evesham, is a remarkably complete example of vernacular domestic wall painting of the period. Characteristic of a decorative tradition found in English [...]
I recently undertook a survey of the remarkable wall paintings at The Painted Room - a rare survival of domestic Elizabethan decoration dating to around 1570–1580. The room originally formed part of the historic Crown Tavern, reputedly visited [...]
Last week marked the opening of a new permanent display at the Egyptian Museum Cairo: the conserved wall, floor, and ceiling paintings from the Amenhotep III Painted Palace at Malqata. This multidisciplinary project, directed by Prof. Martina Ullmann [...]
This summer, I had the pleasure of returning to the three Fred Millett murals, Summer, Autumn, and Winter, at St Crispin’s School, Wokingham – thirteen years since I last worked on them. In 2011 and 2012, the Perry [...]
These beautiful eighteenth-century carved and gilded panels from Ditchely Park in Oxfordshire had been moved in the 1950s from their original location to the then newly created Lecture Theatre at the house. At that time the backboards, which [...]
The Gilbert Spencer paintings at Holywell Manor, Balliol College, Oxford depict the Foundation legend of Balliol. They were painted between 1934 and 1936 when Spencer was a student at the college. The paintings cover all four walls of [...]
The shrine of Ikhwat Yusuf (AD 1125-50) is a rare Fatimid mausoleum located in Cairo’s City of the Dead. It is one of Egypt’s very few surviving Fatimid buildings to contain a decorated and carved stucco mihrab – [...]
Towards the end of last year, I undertook a conservation condition assessment for the American Research Centre in Egypt, supported by the World Monuments Fund at the Merenptah Tunnel of the Osireion at Abydos. A truly unique monument. [...]
This multidisciplinary project, under the leadership of Prof Martina Ullmann of the Ludwig Maximilians University Munich, at the Egyptian Museum Cairo on the wall paintings from the Temple of Amenhotep III at Wadi es Sebua, was undertaken in [...]
I undertook two phases of work at a grade II* listed 17th century Cotswold manor house in spring and summer 2022, following a conservation assessment of the wall paintings in the western of the manor house’s two gatehouses [...]
