David Luard studied Restoration & Conservation at the City & Guilds of London Art School receiving a diploma in 1985. He worked, based in Devon, all over the country for Hugh Harrison at Herbert Read Ltd concentrating on the conservation of polychrome timber and decorative lime plaster. Projects included the fire damaged restoration of the Grinling Gibbons carving at Hampton Court Palace and the conservation of the painted panelling and overmantle in the Solar at Stokesay Castle. In 1993 he returned to London and started in private practice for himself. Since then he has worked on Grinling Gibbons carvings at Burghley House, the Reredos at St. James’s Church Piccadilly, as well as those at Windsor Castle and others at Hampton Court. David has been involved in the restoration of the woodwork in many ‘City’ churches and is ‘Historic timber Consultant’ to the London DAC.