Artist Conserving Art
Professional Painting Conservation & Restoration
Rabbit Hill Studio provides the conservation of all types of paintings. Our goal is to restore beauty to your treasured painting in a way that it will last for many centuries. Joshua approaches the work from the artist’s perspective, analyzing each work from a technical, historical, and archival perspective.
His goal is to give the painting’s voice back without disregarding its lifetime and history. By understanding the mind of the original artist, he ensures that every restoration respects the integrity of the work while securing its future.
Technical Approach & Treatments
Structural Consolidation
Addressing "cupping" or flaking paint layers by re-adhering the paint film to the ground and support using archival-grade adhesives.
Surface Cleaning & Varnish Removal
The delicate removal of atmospheric pollutants, soot, and grime. We specialize in the removal of aged, yellowed natural resin varnishes that obscure the original color and depth of the work.
Tear Repair & Structural Lining
Mending punctures or tears through bridge-bonding or thread-by-thread reweaving. When a canvas is too brittle for local repair, we utilize traditional lining or strip-lining for stabilization.
Loss Filling & In-painting
Filling areas of paint loss with specialized gesso to match the texture of the original work. In-painting is performed using high-stability conservation pigments, limited strictly to the areas of loss.
Documentation & Reversibility
We document every stage of the treatment process. Following international ethical standards, all materials used are selected for their archival stability and full reversibility.
