A Tudor Domestic Wall Painting: Conservation and Stabilisation
Dating to the 1590s, this scheme, which survives in [...]
The Painted Room Oxford: A Materials Study
I recently undertook a survey of the remarkable wall paintings [...]
Paintings from the Malqata Palace: Conservation to Display
Last week marked the opening of a new permanent display [...]
Returning to the Fred Millett Murals
This summer, I had the pleasure of returning to the [...]
Eighteenth-Century Carved and Gilded Panelling
These beautiful eighteenth-century carved and gilded panels from Ditchely Park [...]
20th Century Paintings, Balliol College, Oxford
The Gilbert Spencer paintings at Holywell Manor, Balliol College, Oxford [...]
Conservation Laser Cleaning in Cairo’s City of the Dead
The shrine of Ikhwat Yusuf (AD 1125-50) is a rare [...]
Conservation Condition Assessment Merenptah Tunnel, Abydos
Towards the end of last year, I undertook a conservation [...]
Conservation & Research: Wadi es Sebua Temple Wall Paintings
This multidisciplinary project, under the leadership of Prof Martina Ullmann [...]
17th Century Cotswold Manor House Wall Paintings
I undertook two phases of work at a grade II* [...]
Conserving the Oldest Known Egyptian Wall Painting
For the past year I have been working for the [...]
Stabilising Recently Discovered c.17th Domestic Wall Paintings
Last month, when site work and travel were still a [...]
Conservation Subject Bibliographies at the Chantry Library, Oxford
The Chantry Library, the reference collection of conservation literature owned [...]
Nanotechnologies for the Conservation of Contemporary Art – Copenhagen
At the end of November 2018 I was invited to [...]
Advanced Imaging Techniques at the Egypt Exploration Society
Two Saturdays ago a workshop on advanced imaging techniques [...]
Conservation of C16th Painted Panelling at Magdalen College, Oxford.
I have just completed a phase of conservation work [...]
The Chantry Library – A Valuable Conservation Resource in Oxford
I have been excited recently to have the opportunity to [...]
Finalising the Conservation Campaign at the Tomb of Sennefer – and a Black Coffin
January and February saw the 2018 season of the [...]
Gels in Conservation
A pioneering international conference on the use of gels in [...]
St Paul’s Catacombs for Heritage Malta
The Hal Saflieni Hypogeum in Malta reopened to the public [...]
Reconstruction or Ruin: Conserving Destroyed Heritage
Having been linking articles and writing on the subject of [...]
ICOM-CIPEG Tutankhamun Shrine Project
Looking back on the year one of the most interesting [...]
Doom, Medieval paintings and Shakespeare at the Guild Chapel Stratford
This autumn I have been involved in the wall paintings [...]
Egyptian Wall Plasters, Paintings, and the Publications of the Luxor Conservation Conference
The Gerda Henkel Foundation has started to publish the papers [...]
Conflict, Cultural Heritage, Conservation and working in Zagreb in late 1990s
Last year at the British Museum's Defining Beauty: The Body [...]
Wall Painting Conservation for Shakespeare’s Anniversary
As part of the 400 year anniversary events to mark [...]
Technical Perspectives on Wall Paintings
Last week, 25-29 April, was the 10th ICAANE conference, held [...]
Buttery Stairs Spandrels, Great Hall, Hampton Court
These 1532 carved spandrels over the doorway leading to [...]
Death on the Nile; Conservators, Egyptologists & Coffins in Cambridge
From 7-9 April the Ancient Egyptian Coffins Past, Present [...]
Conservation of a Medieval Angel Gabriel
Having just been writing about the conservation of a [...]
Award Win For Lost Wall Paintings
The conservation project for Tobit Curties Associates, undertaken in late [...]
Conservation of Theban Temples and Tombs Symposium
Last week was the inaugural conference on the Conservation [...]
1960s Wall Paintings at the Marsam/Sheik Ali Hotel, Luxor, Egypt
While working on various conservation projects in the Theban [...]
Ellys Manor House Wall Paintings
This was a conservation project in summer 2015, focusing [...]
Conservation of a Painted Tomb
A very nice piece about the Tomb of Menna project, [...]
St George and the Dragon
Over the last month I have worked with my [...]
Icons, Woodworm, Cleaning and Conservation
At the conservation department of the Benaki Museum in Athens, [...]
Alloue Revisited
My final project of the summer has been another [...]
More Analysis For Pigments
As well as the non invasive analytical methods already mentioned [...]
Sibleys Wall Paintings
This was a project in summer 2015 to stabilise [...]
Technology and Egyptian Greens
Further to the project to create an affordable system of [...]
Brave New World
To continue the theme of disappearing 20th century social [...]
Materials Ancient and Modern
Working in Cambridge recently I popped in to the [...]
The Eagle: A Second World War Graffiti Ceiling
Conservation of an unusual historic graffiti ceiling at the [...]
The Neues Museum, Berlin
Several years ago I was involved in the conservation [...]
In Search of a Doom
This was a project in spring 2015 for the [...]
Rediscovered PreRaphelite Wall Paintings
The Red House wall paintings project in 2013 received a [...]
Conservation of a New Tomb
At the beginning of 2015 in conjunction with the [...]
Reinstating a 1940s Wall Painting
This was a project in the summer 2014 with [...]
The Grandison Monument, Much Marcle
This was a long term project with conservator Michael [...]