Egypt
In November of 2019 and February of 2020 Saša continued her work with the Czech Institute of Egyptology mission who were working on various investigations of Old Kingdom tombs in the western Cairo area of Saqqarra. She treated wall paintings and various artifacts.
Kensington Palace, 2020
In January 2020, Greg spent a few days doing remedial work on the King’s Staircase. On the 17th C William Kent wall and ceiling paintings he treated areas of lost paint and flaking.
Environmental monitoring
In December 2019 Greg analysed the temperature and relative humidity data collected from data loggers he had installed in January 2019 at two sites in Grand Cayman. These are in the Cayman National Cultural Foundation’s painting store and in Miss Lassie’s House in...
More work in the Banqueting House, Whitehall. 2019
In the summer of 2019 Greg and Saša worked concurrently on two areas of wall painting. Saša worked with two assistant conservators to explore the original decoration of the frieze in the main hall. Previous paint cross sections had indicated there was an early...
Banqueting House, Whitehall, 2018
In February-March 2018, Saša and Greg worked on a project for Richard Ireland to investigate the original painted decoration of the coffered ceiling surrounding the large paintings by Peter Paul Rubens in the ceiling. This is an original part of the Inigo Jones...
Wallace collection
Between 2012 and 2014 Sasa carried out an involved polychrome identification and conservation treatment of the Head of Christ by Pietro Torrigiani in the Wallace Collection in London. The sculpture, dated to 1520 and originally located in Westminster Abbey, is made up...
Roedean, painting restored.
A portrait of a former pupil, M A Brunner (Mrs H P Lowe) who attended the school from 1887-1889. The artist is Thomas Benjamin Kennington (1856-1916), a London based painter who specialised in portraits of the middle classes....
Liverpool Philharmonic Hall, 2013
In January 2013 we completed a survey of the historic paint schemes in the front of house of the Philharmonic Hall in Liverpool. Using cross sections of paint samples we identified the early schemes and followed this up by uncovering small areas of original paint. ...
Guildhall Art Gallery
November 2012 The Famous Harold Samuels Collection was being exhibited for the first time outside the Mansion House in the City, where the collection is housed. Regarded as one of the very best collections of Dutch master paintings in Britian, the paintings were going...
May 2012
Stig is working on easel paintings in his studio and various small site projects. In his role as a contemporary artist he is preparing a display for the Para-Olympic site in Weymouth in August. It is an interactive display that explores historical attempts to...