St John’s church in Waterloo is a Grade II* Georgian building and on its East wall, behind the altar, there are two Hans Feibusch’s wall paintings, which are undoubtedly the focal point of the entire building: the 'Crucifixion' (446 x 276 cm ca.) and the 'Adoration of the Shepherds' (100 x 140 cm ca.). The aim of our conservation campaign for the Waterloo murals was to focus mainly on stabilising the flaking paint layers and reducing the thick ingrained dirt build-ups.

St Mary Magdalene church in Paddington, London, is a grade I listed building. Within its crypt, the St Sepulchre Chapel (1895) was designed by Ninian Comper, who is considered the last of the great Gothic Revival architects. Unfortunately, the chapel’s location and its substrate materials are the main causes of the severe deterioration affecting the painted schemes and its stone fabric. This challenging and fascinating conservation project focused on the most evident deterioration issue in the chapel, which was the severe de-lamination of the paint layers, in particular on the vault. Large areas of the vault, ribs and window traceries, especially on the south side of the chapel, had suffered a complete loss of paint and ground layers, leaving the plaster on the vault in these areas exposed and affected by de-cohesion (binder loss) and salt efflorescence.

Conserving Victorian mosaic floor circa 1883.

Conserving a Minton and Hollins geometric tiled floor of a former railway waiting room now under the stewardship of the Landmark Trust in collaboration with a specialist tile manufacturer.

The conservation and restoration of interior architectural ceramics at Beverley Road Baths, Hull.

Conserving Anglo-Saxon artefacts as part of the community heritage project, CSI: Sittingbourne, as featured on Digging For Britain (BBC). Photo Credit: Dr Alice Roberts.  

Conservation of the paint on the sculptures of Hinemihi, a Maori meeting house, which has been outside for over 100 years

Conservation of two canoes from the Solomon Islands for permanent display in the new World gallery.

A flood in the store of Birmingham Museum had been dealt with by conservators at Plowden & Smith, I was hired to conserve a group of taxidermy birds that been damaged. The group included two great bustards, an Australian pelican and an Egyptian goose. Treatment required was mainly reshaping bent…

In 2008 the archivist at Hatfield House asked if we could take over a project which had already been ongoing for a number of years. This was a to treat and re-house the Cecil Papers – a collection of over 30,000 manuscript letters of William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley (1521-1598) Lord Burghley, and his son Robert Cecil, the First Lord Salisbury (1563 – 1612). The collection also included letters from Queen Elizabeth I, and Sir Walter Raleigh, dealing with such matters as the trial and execution of Mary, Queen of Scots, and information from servants of the Gunpowder Plot conspirators.