Adam Bowett

A furniture historian who has published widely in both popular and academic literature. He has a particular interest in the history and use of furniture woods. He is currently working on a dictionary of historic furniture woods.
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Aline Angus
Head of Conservation, Leather Conservation Centre, Northampton
Has worked on ethnographic collections at the Horniman in London, the Royal Albert Museum in Exeter and at the Royal Museum in Edinburgh mostly on 18 and 19th century objects for the new Museum of Scotland. Aline has spent a total of 9 years at the Leather Conservation Centre and has been in charge since 2005.
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Angie Geary
Post Doctoral Research Fellow, Camberwell College of Art
Angie Geary joined Camberwell as a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, based in Conservation, in October 2002. She is pursuing research applications using haptic virtual reality technology. Angie gained her doctorate at the Royal College of Art in 2001 following her study of three-dimensional visualisation and virtual reconstruction of museum artefacts. Her research emerged from a fascination with digital methods of image processing for conservation. This led her to consider the use of computer visualisation and VR technologies as a possible alternative to the physical restoration of damaged painted surfaces. Angie comes from a fine art background and undertook a BA in painting at Glasgow School of Art. Subsequent to working as a portrait artist and community arts worker in Scotland she studied for an MA in Paintings conservation at the University of Northumbria. Following this she worked as a conservator at Tate Britain for two years, leaving to establish a private paintings conservation practice in London serving clients which included the Palace of Westminster, English Heritage and The National Trust.
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Anita Chowdry
Artist and illustrator
Anita Chowdry has twenty year’s experience in teaching art. Indo-Persian miniature painting has been her passion throughout this time. Besides doing much independent research in Britain into pigments and techniques, she has also maintained a long and close association with the family of Bannu, master painters based in India, who have so generously allowed her access to a heritage dating back generations in the service of the royal courts of India. She has run dedicated workshops and demonstrations to accompany a number of exhibitions at major institutions including The British Museum, the V&A, the National Portrait Gallery and the British Library.
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Anthony Cains

Anthony Cains was apprenticed to the London trade bookbinder E A Neale Ltd (1954) and studied at the London School of Printing and Graphic Arts. He was awarded various prizes including the Harrison Memorial Prize in 1957. He studied under many distinguished bookbinders including Bernard Middleton and the late William Matthews, who subsequently recommended him to Dr Sidney Cockerell at Lechworth (1961-5). He worked for a short time in the HMSO British Museum Bindery (1965) before establishing his own workshop at St Albans. He volunteered for salvage work in Florence following the flood of 4th November 1966 and was later appointed Technical Director of the conservation system set up in the Biblioteca Nationale Centrale with the support of the Art and Archive Rescue Fund (UK) and the Committee to Rescue Italian Art (USA) 1967-72. In 1972 he was invited to design and establish a workshop and laboratory in the Library of Trinity College Dublin. He has contributed articles to The Paper Conservator and New Bookbinder and taught and lectured in Ireland and the UK, Europe, the USA and Australia.
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Benner Larsen
Independent Conservator, International Consultant
Benner Larsen is a multi-skilled artist and replica maker. Since 1977 he has been Lecturer in Conservation at the Royal Art Academy in Denmark, and also works as a freelance conservator. In addition, he is a painter and a graphic artist.
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Cheryl Porter
Conservator, Consultant
Cheryl Porter has been Director of the Montefiascone Programme since its inception in 1988. She has been a freelance conservator working principally on the conservation of manuscripts and their inks and pigments. She has taught in Australia and New Zealand, the USA and Canada as well as in many centres in Europe. Cheryl is currently Senior Conservator and Manager of Preservation and Conservation, Thesaurus Islamicus Foundation and Dar al-Kutub Manuscript Conservation Project in Cairo, Egypt.
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Christine Gaylarde
Environmental microbiologist
Christine has been working in the field of biodeterioration for almost 30 years and for the last 8 years on biodeterioration of historic and cultural property. She has taught and researched in England, Latin America and Australia and is a co-author of "Introduction to Biodeterioration- Second Edition" and the "Heritage Biocare" CDs. She is also an Editor of the "International Biodeterioration and Biodegradation Journal"
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David Margulies
Painter and Researcher into Ultramarine
David Margulies has a Degree in History and History of Art. He studied gilding under an Austrian master gilder and also studied painting conservation and worked under the late Helmut Ruhemann.
He established a painting conservation studio under the aegis of Sothebys, specializing in Pre-Raphaelite and Qajar paintings. He also established a private conservation studio, teaching undergraduate and postgraduate students and has taught a course in the history of painting materials and techniques,at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem. He had a particular interest in the examination of fakes and frauds. At present he is painting full-time but continues his research into the history and manufacture of genuine ultramarine.
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David Pinniger
Consultant entymologist advising museums and historic houses
David Pinniger is an independent consultant advising museums, historic properties and local authorities. He has developed integrated pest management programmes for collections and alternatives to pesticides for the control of pests. He is the pest management strategy adviser for English Heritage and many of the major museums and historic houses in the UK including; the Natural History Museum, the British Museum, the Victoria and Albert Museum, Tate Modern, Althorp and Kensington Palace.
He has run IPM (Insect Pest Management) training courses in the UK, Austria, Sweden, Italy, USA, Singapore, Australia and Japan. He has presented papers at many UK and international conferences and is the author of over 50 papers and publications. These include the books “Integrated Pest Management”(MGC) and "Pest Management in Museums, Archives and Historic Houses"(2001 Archetype).
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David Scott
Head of the Scientific Department, Getty Conservation Institute, California

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Dennis Allsopp
Consultant in Biodeterioration of Materials
Dr Allsopp is an authority on the biodeterioration of materials of economic and cultural importance, and the co-author of‘Introduction to Biodeterioration‘, His main professional interests started with microbiology and applied mycology, particularly in regard to cellulose deterioration. He has been Secretary-General and President of both the International Biodeterioration Society, and the International Biodeterioration Research Group (IBRG). He has taught widely in the UK, including having been a guest lecturer at the Royal College of Art, the Camberwell School of Art, and at Hampton Court Palace, and also in Brazil, Mexico and Spain His CD written jointly with Chrsitine Gaylarde “Heritage Biocare' which will be published in a n enlarged and revised version in July will be given to each participant.
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Dorothy Catling
Plant Anatomist
Dorothy Catling has extensive experience in plant and wood anatomy and identification. She has lectured in plant anatomy at Imperial College and in the identification of wood and plant fibres at the Institute of Archaeology, University of London. She has spoken at many other universities, including Adelaide and Leiden and organised and taught courses on the identification of wood and plants in Britain and Australia. Her experiences include 20 years as Senior Scientific Assistant and four years as Honorary Research Fellow at Jodrell Laboratory, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and 17 years as Senior Scientific Officer in plant anatomy at the Metropolitan Police Forensic Science Laboratory. She has consulted various institutions, including the Fibre Industry Research Association of the United Nations. In 1996 she completed a Ph.D. at the University of Durham, where she currently continues her studies of the Protaeceae and is a tutor at the Department of Biological Sciences. She is the co-author of Identification of Vegetable Fibres.
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Frances Halahan


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Friederike Waentig
Professor of Conservation
Professor for the Conservation of Wooden Artifacts and Modern Materials at the University of Applied Sciences Cologne. Friederike was previously:
Senior Conservator at the Art and Exhibition Hall,Bonn;
Conservator at the Conservation Center Düsseldorf;
Conservator at the Museum for Appied Art Cologne.
She obtained her degree at the Otto-Friedrich-University of Bamberg majoring in Heritage Preservation, with minor studies in folklore and building history. Her Ph.D. thesis was entitled “Synthetic Materials in Art: research from the conservation point of view”. Her Master's thesis in Heritage Preservation, Otto-Friedrich-University Bamberg, was “Technical and Industrial Monuments – Definition, History and Preservation” and her Master's degree from the University of Applied Sciences Cologne, was on Conservation specialising in Wooden Artifacts. She spent a practical semester in East-Berlin (former GDR) at the Museum for Applied Art Berlin and wrote a thesis: " History of Furniture Coatings in the 20th Century - especially the Coatings of the Bauhaus-Time"
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Herve Cheradame
Senior Chemist
Laboratoire de Chimie Macromoleculaire et Papetiere, Ecole Francaise de Papeterie, Saint-Martin d'Heres, France
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Jaap van der Burg
Director, Helicon Conservation Support Services, Holland
Jaap van der Burg's experience in the packing and transport of museum objects in notable. As Keeper of Collections of the Royal Dutch Army and Arms Museum he was responsible for the movings of the 180.000-piece collection for nine years. At the National Museum of Ethnology he co-ordinated the packing, move and conservation of about 150.000 objects. Since January 2000 he has worked for HELICON conservation support where he has developed the eight-step approach to packing and transport, to be covered on the course, in co-operation with Wouter Hijnberg. He has been lecturer and tutor in Preventive Conservation and Packing at the Netherlands Institute of Cultural Heritage since 1994.
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Jim Bloxam
Conservator, Restorer
Jim Bloxam is a Senior Book Conservator in the Conservation Department at Cambridge University Library, working on early printed books, manuscripts and archives. He is an Accredited Conservator/Restorer of the Institute of Paper Conservation and has an Honours Degree (First Class) in Art History. His particular research interest lies mainly in the history of books; their structural qualities and cultural context. He has taught for the past four years at the Montefiascone Summer School Library Project.
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Joanna Kosek
Senior Paper Conservator, British Museum

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John Maseman
Director, South Florida Conservation Center
John Maseman has degrees in Ancient History and Natural Science, as well as in Objects Conservation from the University of London's Institute of Archaeology. Of the many internships his involvement in the Nemea Valley Archaeological Project in Nemea, Greece led to a long-term association with the project. These placements were followed a research assistant post at University College, London on the 'Ain Ghazal Statue Project. In 1988 he established the South Florida Conservation Center where he is currently the Director and Chief Conservator. In 1993 he became the project training conservator for the State of Florida's SAVE OUTDOOR SCULPTURE! survey. In 1993 he was the ceramics conservation instructor at the Tunica-Biloxi Indian's Museum in Marksville, Louisiana. 1997-1999 he worked with the Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art in Winter Park, Florida as the chief conservator on the Tiffany Chapel Conservation Project, which involved the treatment and installation of L.C. Tiffany's chapel interior from the Chicago World's Columbian Exposition of 1893. He has co-ordinated several IAP courses in Florida over the past 10 years and is co-ordinating the IAP Glass conservation short courses in Florida in 2002.
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Jose Pestana
Director, Mural da Historia, Lisbon

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Kristine Rose

Kristine Rose graduate from the Camberwell College of Art BA(Hons)Conservation course in 2002. Since graduating she has been employed by Cambridge University Library where she has worked on a variety of manuscript material. She has also worked as a volunteer on the Montefiascone Library Project for the past five years.
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Martin Cooper
Research Scientist
Dr Martin Cooper is a leading authority on the use of lasers in conservation, with many years' experience in the field at NMGM, building on a doctorate in this field from Loughborough University.
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Martin Webb-Salter


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Mary-Lou Florian
Conservation Scientist
Mary-Lou Florian is a Biologist working as Research Associate and Emerita Conservation Scientist at the Royal British Columbia Museum,Victoria, BC, Canada. She has an MA from the University of Texas and worked as a Postgraduate at both Carleton University and UBC. She specialises in museum objects of organic material: their deterioration, treatment requirements and insect and fungal pest protection. Currently doing research on fungal stains and writing teaching manuals on organic materials, Mary-Lou has written published articles on many aspects of organic materials in museum objects as well as two books: Heritage Eaters; Insects and Fungi in Heritage Collections" and "Fungal Facts: solving fungal problems in heritage collections". She has taught courses for conservators at the Campbell Centre, US; University of Victoria, Canada; Northeast Conservation Document Centre, US; in Munich and in Australia. She has received many awards for her contributions in conservation and is an Honorary member of AIC.
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Nicholas Hadgraft

Nicholas Hadgraft has a PhD from the University of London on the subject of 15th century book structures. He is a qualified librarian with an MA in Historical Bibliography. After working at the British Library, he worked as Conservation Officer for college libraries within the University of Cambridge for fifteen years. He trained as a manuscript and rare book conservator with Christopher Clarkson and is currently working in private practice and as a Research fellow of the London Institute, working to preserve the collections at St Catherine’s monastery at Mt Sinai.
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Nick Eastaugh
Consultant Paint Analyst
Dr Nicholas Eastaugh has degrees in physics and art history, as well as being a graduate of the easel paintings conservation course at the Courtauld Institute of Art. Specialising in the scientific examination of paintings, he has lectured widely in his field at graduate, post-graduate and professional level. He is currently engaged in writing a book/CD-ROM entitled 'The Pigment Compendium: Optical Microscopy of Historical Pigments'.
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Nick Griffiths
Archaeological IIlustrator
Nick Griffiths’s career as an illustrator spans over three decades. After five years as Winchester Excavations illustrator he worked for the Ashmolean Museum and then went on to be Senior Illustrator at the Archaeology Department at the Museum of London. He has been a freelancer since 1988, including work for the British Museum, various other museums and universities. For the past four years he has been illustrator for the Mugello Valley Archaeological Project in Italy. He is the co-author of the Archetype title Drawing Archaeological Finds.
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Nikos Minos
Director of Conservation, Ministry of Culture, Athens

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Olivia Primanlis

Book conservator at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, Austin, Texas
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Paul Cook


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Penny Bendall
Ceramic Conservator
Penny has worked in ceramic conservation in the UK for 18 years. She is a free-lance conservator with experience in the commercial and museum fields. Previous projects have included exhibition work for Burghley House, Eskenazi Ltd, Sotheby's, Christies, Historic Royal Palaces and The Royal Collection. She was granted the Royal Warrant in 2003.
Her work covers care and maintanance of collections, condition surveys and practical conservation. The most current project is the restoration of the Kangxi vases broken at the Fitzwilliam museum, Cambridge.
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Peter Bower
Forensic paper historian and paper analyst
Peter Bower, forensic paper historian and paper analyst,specialises in the examination and analysis of papers for purposes of dating, attribution, authentication and usage. He has written many reports and consultation documents on papers used in works of art, banknotes, bonds, books etc.
He has published two books on Turner's papers and given many papers at various conferences including the The Broad Spectrum and Looking at Paper.

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Peter Bowers


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Peter MacTaggart
Consultant Scientist

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Richard Wolbers
Professor, University of Delaware, Winterthur Museum
Richard Wolbers is an Associate Professor in the Art Conservation Department at the University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware. His academic qualifications include BS Biochemistry and MFA Painting from the University of California and MS Art Conservation from the University of Delaware. His research interests lie in developing cleaning systems for fine art surfaces and in applied microscopy techniques for characterising decorative materials. He has conducted workshops in many American and European locations. In 1991 he was featured on 'The Infinite Voyage' television programme and is the author of 'Cleaning Painted Surfaces: Aqueous Methods' (2000).
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Robert Child
Head of Conservation
Robert Child is Head of Conservation at the National Museums and Galleries of Wales, where he specialises in the care of collections. He is Adviser on insect pest control to the UK National Trust, and is a consultant on environmental and biological control internationally.
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Rowena Gale
Consultant Plant Anatomist
During her 13 years as a member of the scientific staff at the Jodrell Laboratory at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Rowena Gale's work involved anatomical research and identification of plant material. Since 1983 she has been a freelance wood anatomist, concentrating mainly on the identification of archaeological wood from sites in Europe, Central Asia and Northern Africa. Her main interests are in environmental archaeology and the economic use of woodland resources as fuel for domestic, ritual and industrial purposes. She also identifies modern commercial timbers and tree roots. Her work is published in a wide range of botanical and archaeological journals and she has co-authored several books, including 'Plants in Archaeology', an identification manual of artefacts of plant origin from Europe and the Mediterranean.
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Roy Mandeville
Mountmaker, Plowden and Smith, London
Roy started working with Plowden and Smith in 1988, after graduating with a degree in creative Arts. He trained and worked alongside Peter Smith developing mountmaking techniques and installing museum exhibitions. In 1993 he moved to the Royal Armouries where he was the display technician at the Tower of London, and then led a team of technicians to set up the displays for the new Royal Armouries Museum in Leeds. Moving from the Royal Armouries, he worked freelance, providing a mountmaking service for museums for four years before re-joining Plowden and Smith as Exhibitions Manager and becoming an Associate Director managing an exhibition team of 5 technicians and one joiner setting up displays for museums and galleries in the UK and overseas. Roy left Plowden and Smith in early 2005 to settle in Dorset, and has set up his own business 'The Museum Workshop' carrying out mountmaking projects for museums. Roy has a Diploma in Museum Studies from Leicester University.
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Ruth Siddall
Lecturer, Dept of Earth Sciences, UCL
Dr Ruth Siddall has a first degree and PhD in Geology and now lectures full time in petrology, tectonics and geoarchaeology in the Department of Earth Sciences, University College London. Research interests include the analysis of plasters, mortars and concretes in Classical archaeology, geoarchaeology in Greece, and the identification of historical pigments. She is currently involved in creating a self-learning module in the identification of geological materials for the Wiener Laboratory, American School of Classical Studies, Athens.
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Salvador Muñoz Viñas
Professor, Conservation Department, Polytechnic University, Valencia, Spain
Dr. Salvador Muñoz Viñas is Professor at the Department of Conservation Studies of the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain. He holds university degrees in Art History and Fine Arts. In 1991 he obtained a PhD. in Fine Arts specialising in technical research on the materials and techniques of Southern Italy Renaissance miniature painting. Before joining the UPV, he worked as a conservator at the Historical Library of the Universitat de València. Presently, he teaches paper conservation and conservation ethics, and is head of the paper conservation section of the Instituto de Restauración del Patrimonio of the UPV. He has published several books on conservation in Spain, UK and the USA.
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Sandra Davison


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Simon Cane
Head of Collection Care, Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery

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Simon Moore


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Sophie Budden


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Sophie Woodhouse
Frame Restorer and Gilder
Sophie Woodhouse trained at Swan Farm Studios and worked there for five years before setting up her own frame restoration and gilding business. She is also a part time tutor of frame conservation at City and Guilds of London Arts School.
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Stephen Koob
Conservator, Corning Museum of Glass
Stephen Koob graduated with a Masters Degree in Classical Archaeology from Indiana University (Bloomington, IN,USA) in 1976 and then completed the programme in Archaeological Conservation at the Institute of Archaeology, University of London, in 1980. He spent 5 ½ years working as Conservator at the Agora in Athens and has also worked at the University Museum in Philadelphia and the Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian. He is currently the Conservator of the Corning Museum of Glass. He is a specialist in the conservation of ceramics and glass and has also worked extensively on archaeological excavations, including the Agora in Athens Greece, Gordion and Sardis in Turkey, and Herculaneum in Italy. He is a Fellow of both the American Institute for Conservation (AIC) and the International Institute for Conservation (IIC).
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Stuart Laidlaw
Photographer, Institute of Archaeology, UCL, London

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Sue Newton

BSc Hons in Botany and Plant Technology, Imperial College London. Associate of the Royal College of Science. Senior Lecturer in Wood Science and Course Leader HND Furniture Restoration at London Metropolitan University. Over twenty years experience of teaching at FE and HE level - in the fields of restoration and conservation of furniture and decorative surfaces, cabient making, musical instrument making, furniture design, interior design and product design. Current research interests include cataloguing the Frederick Parker Collection of Chairs housed in a purpose built gallery at the Sir John Cass Department of Art, Media and Design, London Metropolitan University.
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Susan Buck
Conservator of Painted Surfaces and Architectural Materials
Susan L. Buck is a conservator in private practice specializing in the analysis and conservation of painted surfaces on wooden object and architectural materials. She has a BA with concentration in studio art from Williams College and an MBA from Boston University. Her dissertation study of the architectural paints at the Aiken-Rhett House in Charleston, SC was awarded the University of Delaware Wilbur Owen Sypherd Prize for the outstanding doctoral dissertation in the Humanities in 2003. After completing her MS she worked for seven years at the SPNEA Conservation Center as a furniture conservator and microscopist before entering the University of Delaware Ph.D. Program in Art Conservation Research. She has taught cross-section microscopy analysis and alternative cleaning system methods in the WUDPAC program for four years and supervised graduate interns since 1995. She brings real-world projects into the classroom, including the analysis of finish samples from a 1780 Chinese house, wallpapers and paints found trapped in the walls at Montpelier, and exterior paint samples from Colonial Williamsburg.
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Susie Clark
Photograph Conservator
Susie Clarke ACR MIPC qualified in paper conservation at Camberwell School of Art and Craft in London in 1985. She was subsequently the conservator for a collection of approximately 20 million photographs at the BBC Hulton Picture Library and in 1990 became a freelance paper and photograph conservator and consultant. She works primarily for institutions, including national and regional museums, libraries, archives, the National Trust and English Heritage.
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Sylvia Sumira

Sylvia Sumira is an independent conservator specialising in globes. After graduating in History of Art from Leicester University, she gained a Diploma in Paper Conservation from Gateshead Technical College. She then went on to work in globe conservation at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, for several years and spent a period of study at the Austrian National Library in Vienna. Since setting up her own studio she has carried out extensive work for numerous clients including museums, libraries and other institutions in Britain and abroad, as well as for many private owners of globes. She is an accredited member of the Institute of Conservation.
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Tatiana Koussoulou
Textile Conservator, Ministry of Culture, Athens
Tatiana works for the Directorate of Conservation at the Ministry of Culture in Athens and is responsible for the textile conservation department- dealing mainly with the documentation of textile objects, organization and supervision of conservation projects around Greece.
She has a degree was in Conservation of Archaeological finds with specialization in organic materials from the Conservation Department of the TEI of Athens, University of Athens and studied for a PH.D at the Institute of Archaeology, University College, London on “Photodegradation inhibitors for the protection of historic silks in the museum environment”.
She worked as a textile conservator at the Benaki Museum, the Byzantine Museum before joining the Directorate of Conservation.
From 2002 she has also been a lecturer in textile conservation in the TEI of Athens.
She has run a workshop on the Conservation of Ecclesiastical Textiles on Rhodes in 2004
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Velson Horie
Head of Conservation, Manchester Museum

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Winfried Heiber


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Wouter Hijnberg
Director, Helicon Conservation Support Services, Holland
After studies in museology Wouter Hijnberg has specialised in preventive conservation at large. He has worked for Dutch Art Packers and the shippers Van Kralingen and Gerlach. He has developed the Turtle (Van Kralingen) and STAP-line (Gerlach) and created the eight-step approach to packing, to be covered on the course, in co-operation with Jaap van der Burg.
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Ylva Player-Dahnsjö
Chief Conservator, University of Dundee Library
BA (Hons) in English Language and Literature and MA in Mediaeval Literature from King's College London. Lectured for some years in English Literature before training in paper conservation at Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts, where she gained an HND in Library and ArcWve Conservation in 1985. She then worked as Head of Paper Conservation at Ostergötlands Konserveringsateljeer in Vadstena ( Sweden ) and later at the Royal Military Archives ( Krigsarkivet ) in Stockholm. After retuniing to England in 1988, she worked as assistant conservator to Dr Nicholas Pickwoad, before taking up her present position at the Library Conservation Unit in Dundee in 1992. Specialises in books and archives, and preservation management. She regularly teaches and lectures on conservation and related issues, and serves on the comniittees of various professional bodies. She is a member of UKIC and ICOM and an Accredited Member of the Institute of Paper Conservation (IPC). She is currently Secretary-General of the European Confederation of Conservator-Restorers ( ECCO ) and Chair of the Scottish Society for Conservation and Restoration (SSCR)
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Yvette Fletcher
Senior Conservator, Leather Conservation Centre, Northampton
Yvette has been working in conservation since 2001, both in leather and in stone and historic building conservation. Yvette was promoted to Senior Conservator in 2005.
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