About Me

 Conservation through generosity, engagement and efficiency

I am a highly experienced library and archive conservator delivering a comprehensive conservation service across the UK. I am an accredited member of the Institute of Conservation (Icon), and am proud to be listed on the Conservation Register. Full details of my background and experience can be found here.

With over 20 years’ experience of working in written heritage, predominantly in the library and archive collections of several Oxford University colleges but also in museum, educational and religious libraries and archives throughout the UK, I manage my own conservation practice and preservation consultancy from my well-equipped studio in Reading.

I am able to offer an extensive range of practical conservation treatments, and am confident and skilled in treating a wide variety of formats and materials of all ages. Additionally, I am able to provide pragmatic conservation and preservation advice including condition assessments and conservation audits, environmental monitoring and management, handling and moving collections and preparing objects for exhibition or digitisation. I am available to undertake collection-wide projects as well welcoming the opportunity to work on one-off, individual objects.

Regardless of the size of the project, every client is offered a cost-effective service tailored to their individual requirements and to those of each object, with full consultation from initial condition assessment, through treatment to final reporting and aftercare.