About Me

I trained in conservation at the City and Guilds of London Art School, graduating in 1997, before undertaking further training in Italy with a Leonardo da Vinci grant to study with a conservator in Urbino. In addition, I hold an MSc from University College London in Sustainable Heritage, covering conservation issues, methodologies, policies and practice, encompassing sites, built heritage, and collections.

Since 1998 I have been working freelance, both independently and in collaboration with highly respected conservation professionals and institutions, on conservation projects for sculpture, wall paintings and polychrome and gilded decorative surfaces.

My studio is based in Oxford but I also work on conservation projects across the UK and internationally. I have practiced in Germany, Turkey, France, Belgium and Greece, on private projects and for exhibitions, and have held contracts in the paintings department of the Benaki Museum in Athens, and at the American School of Classical Studies in Athens’ Agora conservation laboratory.

I have a long-term involvement in the site based conservation of tomb painting and built heritage in Egypt: running wall painting conservation projects for the American Research Center at the tombs of Menna, Neferrenpet and at the Red Monastery; working on the Tombs of Sennefer and Amenemope for the Université libre de Bruxelles’ Archaeological Mission to the Theban Necropolis; for the Institut Français
d’Archéologie Orientale at the Deir el Medina; and for the University of Leiden. I am a part of the ICOM CIPEG (International Committee for Egyptology) Expert Group on the Tutankhamen Shrine Project.

I am a member of ICON, IIC and ICOM.