Student

B.A. in Applied Industrial Design (silversmith) and Art History at Leicester Polytechnic, DeMontfort University, U.K.

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World Habitat Foundation trophy winner 1992

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Classical Sculpture studio training at Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Beauvais L’Oise, France

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Languages

Fluent in English and French

proficient in Spanish

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Apprentice

Spent 4 years under the guidance of Jane Gilles, Senior Conservator at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

Duties included cleaning works of art with various detergents, chemicals, thinners, abrasives and materials. The consolidation and stabilization of ceramics and stucco objects with paraloid b72 in an acetone suspension, gluing, filling and in-painting the creation of missing parts with plaster epoxies and metals. Treatment of bronze disease.

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Spent 1 year under the guidance of Alan Farancz, Specialist in Tibetan art works, paintings and more

Duties included color matching, consolidating, filling, mounting and demounting, scaffolding, lining, in-painting, testing, photography, framing and gilding.

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Conservator

Opened business in 1996.

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Conservation of Ancient, Antique, Modern and Contemporary Fine Art

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Clients include private collectors, major museums, Christie’s, Sotheby’s, and Bonham’s auction houses in New York City, interior decorators, architectural firms, art dealers, insurance companies and more.

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