EDUCATION

City & Guilds 564 Certificate in Cabinet Making. London
College of Furniture. 1988.

BTEC Higher National Diploma in Furniture: Restoration/
Conservation. Guildhall University. 1990

City & Guilds Further and Adult Education Teachers
Certificate . Redbridge Adult Education Centre. 1993.

BSc (Hons) in Restoration & Conservation London
Guildhall University. 1995.

Victoria & Albert Museum: Internship in Furniture Conservation Department.

WORK EXPERIENCE AND CLIENTS

Tower of London Armouries:
Conservation of Arms and Armour.

London Borough of Waltham Forest: Adult Education tutor in Furniture Restoration.

Initiating, setting up and teaching a new evening course in Restoration Techniques and Materials for Restorers. sponsored by Foxell and James.

Victoria & Albert Museum: Furniture Conservation Department.

Sub-contracted to Herbert Reid Ltd at Holloway Sanatorium,
Virginia Waters. Working on decorative paintwork and decorative painted
oak panelling.

Sub-contracted to Pattenson Cern Conservation: Restoration
of Chapel at Holloway Sanatorium, Virginia Waters.

Colin Piper Conservation: Furniture Restoration/
Conservation.

Royal Collection: Marlborough House. Furniture
Department.

Tate Britain: Frames Conservation.

Woolwich Arsenal: Conservator - Metals and Wood.

West Dean College: Lecturer in furniture Conservation/Restoration.

Guildhall Art Gallery: Frames Conservation Department.

London Metropolitan University: Senior Lecturer on FdA Furniture Restoration
and BSc in the Conservation of Decorative Surfaces...

 OTHERS:

Carved works include the carving of eight lions for the Heraldic chairs housed in the Tower of London, carved oak
leaf panelling in the Chapel at Holloway Sanatorium, Virginia Waters, and various other work for private clients.

Made large life size castings for the line of Kings’ Horses for the White Tower in the Tower of London museum.

Restored two painted chairs decorated by Duncan Grant and Vanessa Bell originally housed in Penn in the Rocks. My year’s research into this project revealed that the chairs were actually part of a set of ten, previously undocumented. A film was made of the restoration work.

Consultancies include: Royal Thames Yacht Club; Frames Section of the Guildhall Art Gallery; Frames Section of Tate Britain, and Sutton House.

Chair of the John Anderson Charity Trust jointly run by Tate Britain Frames Department and London Metropolitan University Conservation Department..

Teaching short courses in Carving, Gilding, and Moulding and Casting.

Formerly Secretary for Membership of the Furniture Section of UKIC (now ICON).

Various short publications for UKIC.

Member of ICON.