Painting + Restoration Studio, Wasps Factory,

14/09/2022

Nice to see a painting on Fake or Fortune I restored 20 years ago still looking good and in better shape that when I got it.

28/02/2022

Painting + Restoration Studio, Wasps Factory, now takes appointments on their Page.

Painting + Restoration Studio, Wasps Factory, now takes appointments on their Page.

28/02/2022

Painting + Restoration Studio, Wasps Factory, now takes appointments on their Page.

Painting + Restoration Studio, Wasps Factory, now takes appointments on their Page.

01/12/2021

Painting + Restoration Studio, Wasps Factory, updated their business hours.

Painting + Restoration Studio, Wasps Factory, updated their business hours.

09/11/2021

Remembering the 1966 Florence floods, fifty five years ago. Exhibition poster from the first exhibition after the floods.

05/10/2021

Just a quick post from PRS virtual world today to say 'Hi'! and hope that everyone is staying safe out there in the real world.

11/02/2021

Today, a small addition to the conservation bookshelf.

08/11/2020

How Medieval Parchment is Made

How Medieval Parchment is Made

22/10/2020

Painting + Restoration Studio on Google

Just updated my Google profile until I can get my new webpage uploaded....

Find out more about Painting + Restoration Studio by following them on Google

13/11/2019

Mystery of iconic painting is solved revealing Glasgow artwork not an El Greco

https://www.thenational.scot/news/18031925.glasgow-lady-fur-wrap-not-el-greco-research-shows/

ART experts have established that a well-known painting from a Scottish collection is not by Spanish Renaissance master El Greco as previously…

07/05/2019

Hidden Cupid resurfaces in one of Vermeer’s best-known works after two and a half centuries

Amazing.

Laboratory tests revealed "sensational" discovery that the figure in Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window was overpainted decades after the artist’s death

25/01/2019

Happy Birthday Rabbie Burns, Portrait of Jessie Lewers Thomson was Robert Burns's nurse for the last 6 months of his life, a woman Burns wrote of in his poetry and fancied himself in love with.

10/09/2018

Hi all,
Webpage back up 👍 Sorry for the delay.

10/10/2016

New addition to the library.

12/08/2016

Feeling very happy and humbled at a wee surprise visit from my two secondary school art teachers who started me on my path in life. Thank you Tom Walsh and Bill Gilpin.

11/11/2015

Interviewed today by Anna Welander of BBC Scotland for an upcoming focus on 'Arts in the background' for the Janice Forsyth show on Radio Scotland - I definitely have a face for radio ....

15/09/2015

NCMA, Duke Develop Conservation Tool - Circa - NCMA - North Carolina Museum of Art

http://ncartmuseum.org/blog/view/museum_partners_with_duke_to_develop_art_conservation_tool

The Museum has collaborated with Duke University and the Free University of Brussels to develop an innovative art conservation tool. The software program, called Platypus, is a Photoshop plug-in that uses mathematical algorithms to allow art conservators to better analyze paintings using X-ray image…

08/07/2015

Was Tweeted and even re-tweeted yesterday... that's a first! All in a days work.
https://twitter.com/RuthFletcher13/status/618384730535403520

07/07/2015

The Painting + Restoration Studio

http://www.paintingandrestorationstudio.co.uk/

New website uploaded.

05/09/2013

Van Gogh expert sheds new light on lost sunflower paintings

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2013/sep/04/van-gogh-lost-sunflower-paintings

I wonder if the unnamed German conservator was Helmut Ruhemann (later to become head of the painting conservation department of the National Gallery, London) who also worked at Kelvingrove under Harry McLean. As a modern day conservator I wouldn't be 'horrified' at his methods as he obviously did his best with his skills and knowledge that he had and worked with and what he had available to him in wartime Scotland, no doubt with the best of integrity as well. The materials used were standard materials at the time. This of course could be a journalistic quote taken a little out of context. A nice wee story to share though.

Author tracks down 1920s print of painting destroyed during war, and ownership of second work not seen in public since 1948

08/07/2013

More Vibrant Tales of Obsolete Pigments

http://hyperallergic.com/74922/more-vibrant-tales-of-obsolete-pigments/

After our first installment of obsolete pigments, we had such a strong response that we realized we'd only hit the tip of the curious history of vanished colors.