Welcome to Artworks Conservation

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.

Clients include members of the public, seeking the conservation and framing of an individual artwork, museums, galleries, institutions, art dealers and historic properties. Advice on the care of collections, reports on condition and assistance with insurance claims can also be arranged.
Call us for advice today or upload an image of your picture and we will get back to you.

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.

Recent Work
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News

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Achieving Maximum Value from the Condition of Banksy Prints

29 September 2020
The market for limited edition and signed, original screenprints by the artist Banksy continues to see rapidly rising prices.  The value of an individual print, ...
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Conserving a record of Harrogate’s link to the Russian royal family

31 July 2020
A project supported by a grant from the National Manuscript Conservation Trust Since it’s foundation thirty years ago the National Manuscripts Conservation Trust (NMCT) have ...
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What Our Clients Say

All three pictures arrived safely; thank you for packing them so well. We are bowled over with the restorations you have achieved for us.

Private client

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.

Private client

Many thanks, Richard. The watercolour has come out very well and as usual you have done an excellent job.

Private client

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.

House manager, National Trust

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.

former Archivist, Royal Albert Hall

I am exceedingly pleased with the work you did.

Private client

The best cup of tea I’ve ever had in my life

Lancashire art courier

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.

Private client

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.

Private client

Magic

Private client

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?

Private client

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.

Archivist, Royal Hospital for Neuro – Disability

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