We specialise in the conservation and restoration of fine art on paper. With more than twenty years of experience restoring watercolours, drawings and prints for museums, galleries, archives, private individuals and the fine art trade, Artworks Conservation also offers mounting, framing and exhibition advice.
All work is carried out to museum standards within modern, well-equipped, secure premises.
Our Services

Conservation & Restoration
Specialists in conservation, repair and cleaning of watercolours, prints, drawings, pastels, collage, acrylics, maps, posters, archives, photographs, globes and vellum.

Museums & Galleries
Museum standard, paper conservation alongside advisory service, exhibition mounting and framing, collection surveys and loan condition reports.

Archival Reproductions
High resolution photography, scanning and printing on a specially selected range of acid-free, archival quality papers to make facsimiles of documents, photographs and artworks.

Disaster Recovery
Help with recovery of fire and flood damaged artworks and documents, provide reports for insurance companies and assist with emergency planning / disaster preparedness.

Mounting and Framing
In-house, museum quality, conservation mounting and framing ranging from historic to modern styles including hand-finished and gilded frames.

Banksy Prints
Over the years we have worked on nearly all the versions of screenprints made by Banksy and know the materials and potential issues well.
Achieving Maximum Value from the Condition of Banksy Prints
Conserving a record of Harrogate’s link to the Russian royal family
From Fantastic Mr Fox to Fake Banknotes for a Gin Distillery…
What Our Clients Say
I must express my delight in the job you have done on my map. It is back in position looking magnificent, and I look at it without that dread of what damp and gravity might have been doing to it over the years.
Many thanks, Richard. The watercolour has come out very well and as usual you have done an excellent job.
The artworks look great and I am really pleased with the end result. The lithograph looks brilliant. How did you manage to get the water damage out?
You did an excellent job of reproducing a framed copy of our Royal Charter complete with a wax seal even though our wax seal was very damaged. It now hangs in our corporate box where it
looks very impressive to guests of the Hall.
A huge thanks from me – I’m really pleased with the results, and it was brilliant to be able to share the work with visitors. I know the team enjoyed working with you both, too.
I am exceedingly pleased with the work you did.
The best cup of tea I’ve ever had in my life
All three pictures arrived safely; thank you for packing them so well. We are bowled over with the restorations you have achieved for us.
Quite frankly I am amazed at what you have achieved, given the derelict state of the poster when you took it in, and I consider the restoration work to be of the highest order.
Firstly, can I just say what an absolutely superb job you have done with my railway signal diagram, it is nothing less than brilliant and worth every penny of the restoration costs in my opinion.
Magic
My colleagues and I are very impressed with the replica Charter. The document itself is an excellent reproduction, and the seal is very eye-catching. The mount and frame are also very
carefully made (I love how the document appears to float). We really appreciate all the hard work that has gone into it.