Please watch the video to see and hear about what I have been up to in the studio the last few months. Work has begun on one of the curtains, removing the bobbinet and the linings to reveal a little …
Repairing the paper: I can’t believe it is June already – I have been busy working on the curtains for over 6 months and have now repaired one of the two curtains and the outer and inner valance. I have …
The stories told by a first world war soldiers de-mob paper This interesting piece of paper arrived in the studio in the Autumn of 2020. A soldiers demobilization account belonging to the father of the current owner. A father who …
Can you remove creases from contemporary prints? Something that comes into the studio regularly is modern and contemporary prints that have suffered from creases, bashed corners, dents and handling creases – or what I was taught to call them – …
What to do in an emergency if you spill something on a work of art on paper Last week I had a phone call from a distressed client who had an emergency and had managed to spill a glass of …
I was interviewed back in the summer for BBC Radio Wales Science Café programme and it was first aired Tuesday 24 September 2019. You can listen again here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0008qwn Rachel Howells and I were interviewed at the BBC studios in …
After excellent skiing in France 2018 has started very busy! I am now listed on the Conservation Register and starting to get some interesting work through the register. In March I completed framing a modern Chinese scroll nearly 2m long …
