Artworks in Churches and Historic Buildings Gilding is one of our in house skills example of our gilding work
Everingham Conservation provides a high quality service for the conservation and restoration of fine art and decorative surfaces. Paintings are valuable objects irrespective of their monetary worth. They can be objects of great beauty, important historical records, or simply cherished family possessions or heirlooms. Paintings can deteriorate or sustain damage in several ways: dust and [...]
Why Restore Art The reason to restore art is to bring a work back to it’s former beauty. Paintings fade and suffer contamination from a number of sources, restoring them not only makes them as lovely as the artist intended, but treating them with care and using further preventive measures while going through the process [...]
Paintings are valuable objects irrespective of their monetary worth. They can be objects of great beauty, important historical records, or simply cherished family possessions or heirlooms. Paintings can deteriorate or sustain damage in several ways: dust and grime can obscure the image; discoloured varnish can affect subtle tonal changes; exposure to fluctuating temperature and humidity [...]
How to restore art Restoring a piece of art requires several steps before the actual work begins for example: We use often carry out an ‘Ultra Violet Light’ scan , this frequently highlights a possible previous restoration. When are happy we our scan we then carry out exploratory spot cleaning in a multitude of areas, [...]
Depending on the period of the work differing pigments must be mixed to so as to match the original as close as possible. At this time we are infilling to repair and restore, the restorer must consider the original style and brush stroke actions just as if he or she were the original artist, if [...]
Varnishing and Finishing Art At this stage of the process a decision has to be made regarding the correct choice of varnish finish as follows: A varnish is applied to work of art for protection and long term preservation this is offered in a range of finishes, choose from Matt, Semi Matt right up to [...]
