Director and joint founder of Carvers & Gilders which was set up in 1979 with other conservation graduates, Christine now regularly lectures in Gilding at City and Guilds. She has been an accredited Member of the Institute of Conservation since 2002.
Carvers & Gilders Ltd. is a specialist conservation and restoration practice for fine decorative woodcarving, giltwood furniture, mirror frames, ornament etc., which undertakes large and small scale projects in both the public and private sector. Commissions for new work are regularly undertaken.
Carvers & Gilders has both advised on and worked on many large restoration and conservation programmes. These include furniture belonging to the Royal Collection at Hampton Court, Kensington Palace, Windsor Castle, Osborne House and the Queen’s Gallery at Buckingham Palace; also projects for Harewood House Trust, Woburn Abbey, Houghton Hall, Uppark, The Wallace Collection and the National Trust.