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making art technological sources accessible

Technical exam, Islamic manuscripts, Dallas	Recipe research, DV Thompson archive, Washington	Reconstructions, palaeolithic walls, Ardèche

I trained as a paper conservator and conservation scientist, followed by an interdisciplinary PhD on "Anglo-Saxon Manuscript Pigments" at the University of Cambridge.

My research field is historic artists' technology ('technical art history'), especially paint, with a special interest in mediaeval painters, scribes and illuminators. In particular I work on "recipe books" for painters (both studying them, and making them more accessible as texts), and the analysis of artists' pigments.

2001-5 : worked on the Dutch Molart and de Mayerne projects (projects for investigating aging phenomena of painted works of art) based at the ICN and at FOM-AMOLF in Amsterdam. 2004-7 : led two projects digitising and indexing the nineteenth-century archive of hand-written recipes for artists' materials from the English company Winsor & Newton (initialy at the ICN then at the Hamilton Kerr Institute of the University of Cambridge's Fitzwilliam Museum.) 2007- researcher on the Dutch Impact of Oil project. I am also currently editing two medieval collections of artists' recipes, the Secretum Philosophorum and the Montpellier MS 277 (Liber diversarum arcium)

I was founder member and am assistant coordinator for the ICOM-CC [International Council of Museums Conservation Committee] working group on Art Technological Source Research.

I have lectured and published widely on a variety of art technological subjects and am currently consultant to several international projects. I also advise on the digitisation of manuscripts.

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