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- £35M of artwork saved following fire
- 8 amazing foxing before and after examples
- 8000 Items restored after severe property damage
- A guide to professional valuations for art collections
- A New Hope: the restoration of beloved Star Wars poster
- A remarkable restoration for Mr Stoddart’s family painting
- Ackergill Tower restoration saves 270 paintings
- Art and collectible wealth reaches $1.74 trillion
- Banksy’s early artworks in Glasgow restored live
- Before and after ceramic repairs
- Bringing bright skies back to a 19th century mural at Westonbirt School
- British art dealers frustrated by new money laundering rules
- Cartography conservation: restoring maps and historic geography
- Case Study: 19th Century Chess Board Restoration
- Case Study: A Tablet of Two Halves
- Case Study: How mishandling an oil painting caused a 15 inch tear
- Case Study: how to reattach a torn part of a painting
- Case Study: How we tackled tears, full lining, past restoration and a lot of dirt
- Case Study: Local history saved from the shed
- Case Study: Mrs Harrison’s Dutch painting
- Case Study: One vintage ashtray in ten broken parts
- Case study: repairing a pottery statue smashed into 13 pieces
- Case Study: Restoring a 1940 Army Beret
- Case Study: Restoring a damaged bird sculpture
- Case Study: Righting restoration wrongs – how a tear repair should actually look…
- Case Study: Smooth sailing ahead
- Case Study: the ceramic dog and rabbit
- Case Study: the clay elephant in the room
- Case Study: Treating acid damage in a watercolour painting
- Case study: Water damaged Nain Persian rug
- Ceramic repair case study: broken legs and a lost lamb
- Complex claims – when our expertise extends beyond restoration
- Environmental threats to artwork and fine furniture
- Fire damaged specialist contents – looking beyond the obvious damage
- From chess sets to trunks: our most unusual restorations
- How the way artwork is created may cause issues in the future
- How to act when artworks are damaged in transit
- How to care for wooden objects
- How to restore paintings with missing pieces
- How to restore pastel paintings
- How to save a flood damaged painting
- Interesting and unique restorations from 2018
- Lake District painting returns home
- Meet Monica, our paintings conservator
- Meet our conservator Martha
- Oil painting or oleograph?– how to tell the difference
- Pastels and chalks: the conservation of delicate artworks on paper
- Protecting glass: a versatile yet fragile material
- Restoration beyond ability leading to devaluing of artworks
- Restoration of a papier-mâché tiger
- Restoring Mr Peers’ ancestral painting
- Restoring Mrs Pownall’s water damaged painting
- Stratfield Saye – Home of the Duke of Wellington
- The Grand Canal looking east from the Carità towards the Bacino (after Canaletto)
- The history and restoration of Chinese panel art
- The perils and pitfalls of underinsured artworks
- The restoration of a World War Two map
- Top 5 acid-stained artwork restorations
- Water-damaged artworks – how the insurer and supply chain can reduce claim costs
- What does the future hold for the art industry after coronavirus
- What to do when artworks are damaged in transit
Ceramics
- Before and after ceramic repairs
- Case Study: 19th Century Chess Board Restoration
- Case Study: A Tablet of Two Halves
- Case Study: One vintage ashtray in ten broken parts
- Case Study: the ceramic dog and rabbit
- Case Study: the clay elephant in the room
- Ceramic repair case study: broken legs and a lost lamb
- Preventing shattered antiques: How to pack, store and safely transport ceramics
- Protection and preservation of street art
- The hidden value of ceramics
- The restoration process for ceramics
- What to do if your artwork is damaged in transit
Frequently Asked Questions
- Can a cracked oil painting be repaired?
- Can a poor picture frame damage an oil painting?
- Can a previously restored painting be restored again?
- How do I clean my oil painting?
- How to repair tears in watercolours
- How to restore miniature portraits
- How to safely package artworks
- How to store paintings at home
- How to treat tenting paint
- Ivory
- Memorabilia and collectibles – are they covered by insurance?
- Oleographs: what are they, and can they be restored?
- Protecting a painting from sunlight
- Should paintings be restored?
- The 4 steps to assessing an oil painting
- What can cleaning a painting uncover?
- What do you put on a finished oil painting?
- What does ‘lining’ an oil painting mean and when is it needed?
- What items can we restore?
- Why do my paintings look dull?
- Will surface cleaning damage my oil painting?
Guides and advice
- 8 amazing foxing before and after examples
- 8 ways to secure your painting before restoration
- A guide to professional valuations for art collections
- Antique furniture: how to prevent accidental damage
- Banksy on paper: protecting contemporary prints
- Can a cracked oil painting be repaired?
- Can a poor picture frame damage an oil painting?
- Can a previously restored painting be restored again?
- Can watercolour paintings be restored?
- Can you fix a ripped oil painting?
- Can you hang an oil painting in sunlight?
- Can you paint over varnished paintings?
- Case Study: How mishandling an oil painting caused a 15 inch tear
- Case Study: Restoring a 1940 Army Beret
- Case study: Water damaged Nain Persian rug
- Cinema memorabilia rescue: how to save damaged posters and lobby cards
- Cleaning a watercolour painting
- Cleaning the back of an oil painting
- Common damage to watercolour paintings
- Common issues with contemporary paintings
- Common problems that affect oil paintings
- Conservation funding: achieving the restoration of culturally significant artworks
- Does my painting have hidden features?
- Does the price of an artwork reflect restoration costs?
- Flaking, cupping and tenting: common issues with an oil painting’s paint layer
- Gilding care: how to protect gold leaf embellishments on frames, furniture and interiors
- How can the way an artwork is created lead to restoration?
- How do I clean my oil painting?
- How do I flatten my watercolour?
- How do I get rid of foxing?
- How do you clean oil paintings at home?
- How to clean an oil painting on panel
- How to light your artwork
- How to look after your painting
- How to protect paintings from dust
- How to protect paintings from smoke and fire damage
- How to protect your paintings from damage
- How to protect your watercolour painting
- How to re-mould missing parts of a picture frame
- How to remove spillages and stains on oil paintings
- How to repair tears in watercolours
- How to restore miniature portraits
- How to restore oil paintings on copper
- How to restore your watercolour: the treatments
- How to safely package artworks
- How to store and display your artwork
- How to store paintings at home
- How to treat foxing in a watercolour
- How to treat tenting paint
- How we saved a collection of etchings
- Is your frame damaging your artwork?
- Ivory
- Looking after taxidermy: how to protect natural history
- Marquetry restoration: reassembling intricate wooden designs
- Meet our frames conservator Wiktor
- Memorabilia and collectibles – are they covered by insurance?
- Minimising mould risk for artworks
- Mould and infestations in watercolour paintings
- Mould in oil paintings
- Online art auctions: what to look for when you buy online
- Our best restorations of 2020
- Preserving authenticity: how to protect signatures and autographed artworks
- Professional painting assessment: condition reports
- Professional painting assessment: pigment analysis
- Professional painting assessment: technical photography
- Protecting a painting from sunlight
- Protecting artworks with glazing
- Protecting paintings on panel: reducing risks and repairs
- Protection and preservation of street art
- Restoring a water damaged oil painting
- Restoring oil paintings
- Restoring paintings with impasto
- Should paintings be restored?
- Signs of water damage in an oil painting
- Six common causes of frame restoration
- Strip-lining an oil painting: how, why and when is it needed?
- Tears, punctures and missing canvas: structural problems with paintings
- The 4 steps to assessing an oil painting
- The perils of inadequate storage for artworks
- The restoration process for ceramics
- Top 5 acid-stained artwork restorations
- Using Japanese tissue on an oil painting
- What can cleaning a painting uncover?
- What do you put on a finished oil painting?
- What does ‘lining’ an oil painting mean and when is it needed?
- What is overpainting and how can it be fixed?
- What items can we restore?
- What to do if your artwork is damaged in transit
- What to do if your artworks are fire damaged
- What to do if your oil painting becomes water-damaged
- What type of artwork damage can be restored?
- Why do my paintings look dull?
- Will surface cleaning damage my oil painting?
- Wooden games: restoring traditional pastimes
How to ...
- 8 ways to secure your painting before restoration
- Antique furniture: how to prevent accidental damage
- Case Study: How mishandling an oil painting caused a 15 inch tear
- Case Study: Restoring a 1940 Army Beret
- Case Study: Treating acid damage in a watercolour painting
- Cinema memorabilia rescue: how to save damaged posters and lobby cards
- Cleaning the back of an oil painting
- Conservation funding: achieving the restoration of culturally significant artworks
- Does my painting have hidden features?
- How do I flatten my watercolour?
- How do I get rid of foxing?
- How do you clean oil paintings at home?
- How to clean an oil painting on panel
- How to light your artwork
- How to look after your painting
- How to protect paintings from smoke and fire damage
- How to protect your watercolour painting
- How to re-mould missing parts of a picture frame
- How to remove spillages and stains on oil paintings
- How to repair tears in watercolours
- How to restore miniature portraits
- How to restore oil paintings on copper
- How to restore pastel paintings
- How to restore your watercolour: the treatments
- How to safely package artworks
- How to store and display your artwork
- How to treat foxing in a watercolour
- How to treat tenting paint
- Looking after taxidermy: how to protect natural history
- Marquetry restoration: reassembling intricate wooden designs
- Preserving authenticity: how to protect signatures and autographed artworks
- Protecting a painting from sunlight
- Restoring a water damaged oil painting
- Restoring Mrs Pownall’s water damaged painting
- Strip-lining an oil painting: how, why and when is it needed?
- Tears, punctures and missing canvas: structural problems with paintings
- The 4 steps to assessing an oil painting
- Using Japanese tissue on an oil painting
- What do you put on a finished oil painting?
- What is overpainting and how can it be fixed?
- What to do if your artwork is damaged in transit
- What to do if your artworks are fire damaged
- What to do if your oil painting becomes water-damaged
- Wooden games: restoring traditional pastimes
Latest News
- ‘Snorting Copper’ by Banksy restored by Fine Art Restoration Company
- £1 million painting used as kitchen noticeboard
- £100,000 masterpiece discovered in Lancashire church
- £35M of artwork saved following fire
- 10 restoration highlights from 2019!
- 2500 year old cave paintings restored
- A New Hope: the restoration of beloved Star Wars poster
- Antique furniture: how to prevent accidental damage
- Antique furniture: wood types and risks following water damage
- Art collector sued by the museum he donated to
- Banksy on paper: protecting contemporary prints
- Banksy’s early artworks in Glasgow restored live
- Boy punches hole In $1.5 million painting
- Bringing 3D printing to oil painting
- Bringing bright skies back to a 19th century mural at Westonbirt School
- Can a cracked oil painting be repaired?
- Can watercolour paintings be restored?
- Can you fix a ripped oil painting?
- Can you hang an oil painting in sunlight?
- Can you paint over varnished paintings?
- Cartography conservation: restoring maps and historic geography
- Case study: Water damaged Nain Persian rug
- Cinema memorabilia rescue: how to save damaged posters and lobby cards
- Conservation funding: achieving the restoration of culturally significant artworks
- Da Vinci? No! It’s Sally from the Co-op
- Does my painting have hidden features?
- Does the price of an artwork reflect restoration costs?
- Fake Picasso painting for sale
- From chess sets to trunks: our most unusual restorations
- Fundraising drive to restore 17th century painting
- Gilding care: how to protect gold leaf embellishments on frames, furniture and interiors
- Give the gift of restoration
- Historical painting saved thanks to grant
- History of the self portrait
- How do I get rid of foxing?
- How do you clean oil paintings at home?
- How to protect paintings from dust
- How to protect your paintings from damage
- How to save a flood damaged painting
- How to store paintings at home
- Iconic painting details revealed after restoration
- Impact of displaying paintings above fireplaces
- Is your frame damaging your artwork?
- Ivory
- Japanese woodblock conservation: specialist methods for distinctive prints
- Lock of Mozart’s hair sells for over double its estimate, AGAIN!
- Looking after taxidermy: how to protect natural history
- Marquetry restoration: reassembling intricate wooden designs
- Meet Monica, our paintings conservator
- Meet our frames conservator Wiktor
- Meet our Painting Conservator Aleksandra
- Meet the puppy sniffing out infestations in artworks
- Memorabilia and collectibles – are they covered by insurance?
- Miniature restoration: protecting diminutive and diverse portraiture
- Minimising mould risk for artworks
- New Titian painting discovered
- Online art auctions: what to look for when you buy online
- Only 5% of the world’s artworks will survive the next 100 years
- Our best restorations of 2020
- Over £100,000 of very rare marine etchings saved
- Painting damaged due to broken air-conditioning
- Pastels and chalks: the conservation of delicate artworks on paper
- Pensioner unknowingly harbours stolen paintings
- Photography restoration: protecting and reviving moments from the past
- Picasso painting seized
- Preserving authenticity: how to protect signatures and autographed artworks
- Preventing shattered antiques: How to pack, store and safely transport ceramics
- Professional painting assessment: condition reports
- Professional painting assessment: pigment analysis
- Professional painting assessment: technical photography
- Protecting a painting from sunlight
- Protecting artworks with glazing
- Protecting glass: a versatile yet fragile material
- Protecting paintings on panel: reducing risks and repairs
- Protection and preservation of street art
- Rothko painting vandalised
- Should paintings be restored?
- The arts, the internet and COVID-19
- The Grand Canal looking east from the Carità towards the Bacino (after Canaletto)
- The hidden value of ceramics
- The history and restoration of Chinese panel art
- The living Mona Lisa
- The perils of inadequate storage for artworks
- The Queen’s restorers discover a man relieving himself in painting
- The restoration of a World War Two map
- Welcome to the Fine Art Restoration Company’s London Studio
- What do you put on a finished oil painting?
- Why do my paintings look dull?
- Wooden games: restoring traditional pastimes
Oil Painting
- 8 ways to secure your painting before restoration
- A guide to professional valuations for art collections
- A remarkable restoration for Mr Stoddart’s family painting
- Banksy on paper: protecting contemporary prints
- Can a poor picture frame damage an oil painting?
- Can a previously restored painting be restored again?
- Case Study: How mishandling an oil painting caused a 15 inch tear
- Case Study: How we tackled tears, full lining, past restoration and a lot of dirt
- Case Study: Local history saved from the shed
- Case Study: Mrs Harrison’s Dutch painting
- Case Study: Smooth sailing ahead
- Cleaning the back of an oil painting
- Common issues with contemporary paintings
- Common problems that affect oil paintings
- Flaking, cupping and tenting: common issues with an oil painting’s paint layer
- How can the way an artwork is created lead to restoration?
- How do I clean my oil painting?
- How do you clean oil paintings at home?
- How to clean an oil painting on panel
- How to protect paintings from smoke and fire damage
- How to remove spillages and stains on oil paintings
- How to restore miniature portraits
- How to restore oil paintings on copper
- How to safely package artworks
- How to treat tenting paint
- Interesting and unique restorations from 2018
- Lake District painting returns home
- Mould in oil paintings
- Oleographs: what are they, and can they be restored?
- Online art auctions: what to look for when you buy online
- Professional painting assessment: technical photography
- Restoring a water damaged oil painting
- Restoring Mr Peers’ ancestral painting
- Restoring Mrs Pownall’s water damaged painting
- Restoring oil paintings
- Restoring paintings with impasto
- Signs of water damage in an oil painting
- Strip-lining an oil painting: how, why and when is it needed?
- Tears, punctures and missing canvas: structural problems with paintings
- The 4 steps to assessing an oil painting
- Using Japanese tissue on an oil painting
- What can cleaning a painting uncover?
- What do you put on a finished oil painting?
- What does ‘lining’ an oil painting mean and when is it needed?
- What is overpainting and how can it be fixed?
- What items can we restore?
- What to do if your artwork is damaged in transit
- What to do if your artworks are fire damaged
- What to do if your oil painting becomes water-damaged
- Will surface cleaning damage my oil painting?
Useful articles
- 10 restoration highlights from 2019!
- 8 amazing foxing before and after examples
- 8 ways to secure your painting before restoration
- A guide to professional valuations for art collections
- A guide to professional valuations for art collections
- A New Hope: the restoration of beloved Star Wars poster
- A remarkable restoration for Mr Stoddart’s family painting
- Antique furniture: how to prevent accidental damage
- Art and collectible wealth reaches $1.74 trillion
- Banksy on paper: protecting contemporary prints
- Before and after ceramic repairs
- Bringing bright skies back to a 19th century mural at Westonbirt School
- British art dealers frustrated by new money laundering rules
- Can a cracked oil painting be repaired?
- Can a poor picture frame damage an oil painting?
- Can a previously restored painting be restored again?
- Can watercolour paintings be restored?
- Can you fix a ripped oil painting?
- Can you hang an oil painting in sunlight?
- Can you paint over varnished paintings?
- Cartography conservation: restoring maps and historic geography
- Case Study: 19th Century Chess Board Restoration
- Case Study: A Tablet of Two Halves
- Case Study: How mishandling an oil painting caused a 15 inch tear
- Case Study: How we tackled tears, full lining, past restoration and a lot of dirt
- Case Study: Local history saved from the shed
- Case Study: Mrs Harrison’s Dutch painting
- Case Study: One vintage ashtray in ten broken parts
- Case Study: Restoring a 1940 Army Beret
- Case Study: Smooth sailing ahead
- Case Study: the ceramic dog and rabbit
- Case Study: the clay elephant in the room
- Case Study: Treating acid damage in a watercolour painting
- Case study: Water damaged Nain Persian rug
- Ceramic repair case study: broken legs and a lost lamb
- Cleaning a watercolour painting
- Cleaning the back of an oil painting
- Common issues with contemporary paintings
- Complex claims – when our expertise extends beyond restoration
- Does the price of an artwork reflect restoration costs?
- Environmental threats to artwork and fine furniture
- Fire damaged specialist contents – looking beyond the obvious damage
- Flaking, cupping and tenting: common issues with an oil painting’s paint layer
- From chess sets to trunks: our most unusual restorations
- Gilding care: how to protect gold leaf embellishments on frames, furniture and interiors
- Give the gift of restoration
- How can the way an artwork is created lead to restoration?
- How do I get rid of foxing?
- How the way artwork is created may cause issues in the future
- How to act when artworks are damaged in transit
- How to clean an oil painting on panel
- How to light your artwork
- How to look after your painting
- How to protect paintings from dust
- How to protect paintings from smoke and fire damage
- How to protect your paintings from damage
- How to re-mould missing parts of a picture frame
- How to remove spillages and stains on oil paintings
- How to repair tears in watercolours
- How to restore miniature portraits
- How to restore oil paintings on copper
- How to safely package artworks
- How to save a flood damaged painting
- How to store and display your artwork
- How to store paintings at home
- How to treat tenting paint
- How we saved a collection of etchings
- Interesting and unique restorations from 2018
- Is your frame damaging your artwork?
- Ivory
- Lake District painting returns home
- Looking after taxidermy: how to protect natural history
- Meet Monica, our paintings conservator
- Meet our conservator Martha
- Meet our frames conservator Wiktor
- Meet our Painting Conservator Aleksandra
- Memorabilia and collectibles – are they covered by insurance?
- Minimising mould risk for artworks
- Online art auctions: what to look for when you buy online
- Our best restorations of 2020
- Pastels and chalks: the conservation of delicate artworks on paper
- Professional painting assessment: condition reports
- Professional painting assessment: pigment analysis
- Professional painting assessment: technical photography
- Protecting a painting from sunlight
- Protecting artworks with glazing
- Protecting glass: a versatile yet fragile material
- Protecting paintings on panel: reducing risks and repairs
- Protection and preservation of street art
- Restoration beyond ability leading to devaluing of artworks
- Restoring a water damaged oil painting
- Restoring Mr Peers’ ancestral painting
- Restoring Mrs Pownall’s water damaged painting
- Restoring paintings with impasto
- Should paintings be restored?
- Signs of water damage in an oil painting
- Six common causes of frame restoration
- Strip-lining an oil painting: how, why and when is it needed?
- Tears, punctures and missing canvas: structural problems with paintings
- The 4 steps to assessing an oil painting
- The arts, the internet and COVID-19
- The Grand Canal looking east from the Carità towards the Bacino (after Canaletto)
- The hidden value of ceramics
- The history and restoration of Chinese panel art
- The perils and pitfalls of underinsured artworks
- The perils of inadequate storage for artworks
- The restoration of a World War Two map
- The restoration process for ceramics
- Top 5 acid-stained artwork restorations
- Using Japanese tissue on an oil painting
- Water-damaged artworks – how the insurer and supply chain can reduce claim costs
- What can cleaning a painting uncover?
- What do you put on a finished oil painting?
- What does ‘lining’ an oil painting mean and when is it needed?
- What does the future hold for the art industry after coronavirus
- What is overpainting and how can it be fixed?
- What items can we restore?
- What to do if your artwork is damaged in transit
- What to do if your artworks are fire damaged
- What to do if your oil painting becomes water-damaged
- What type of artwork damage can be restored?
- Why do my paintings look dull?
- Will surface cleaning damage my oil painting?
Watercolour
- 8 amazing foxing before and after examples
- A guide to professional valuations for art collections
- Case Study: Treating acid damage in a watercolour painting
- Cleaning a watercolour painting
- Common damage to watercolour paintings
- How do I flatten my watercolour?
- How to protect paintings from smoke and fire damage
- How to protect your watercolour painting
- How to repair tears in watercolours
- How to restore miniature portraits
- How to restore your watercolour: the treatments
- How to safely package artworks
- How to treat foxing in a watercolour
- How we saved a collection of etchings
- Interesting and unique restorations from 2018
- Mould and infestations in watercolour paintings
- The restoration of a World War Two map
- Top 5 acid-stained artwork restorations
- What items can we restore?
Watercolour Video
- Assessing the condition of watercolours
- Can frame quality affect watercolours
- Common types of damage to watercolours
- Drying watercolours after float washing
- Float washing watercolours
- How to prevent silverfish in watercolours
- How to protect watercolours from damage
- Removing damaged backing boards from watercolours
- Repairing a tear in a watercolour
- Using a steamer to remove the backing sheets from watercolours