Fine Art Restoration Co.

Name: Fine Art Restoration Co.
Address: Unit 3 Podmore Road, London, SW181AJ, GB
Telephone: +442071127576
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We are experts in restoring art, furniture, ceramics and more. Our studios in London and Cumbria offer a nationwide collection and delivery service.

Fine Art Restoration Company protects and preserves artwork from across the United Kingdom, including pieces from prestigious private clients and important public institutions. Our conservation and restoration services include historic and modern paintings, a variety of works on paper, frames and gilding, bespoke framing services, furniture restoration, textile repairs, ceramics and decorative object restoration, miniatures, collection care and memorabilia. As well as many corporate clients and collections, we are the fine art conservators of choice for many art collectors and private families throughout the world.

13/10/2026

This Royal Worcester Dancing Waves figurine arrived at our studio in dozens of tiny pieces, several years after it had been accidentally smashed. 🧑‍🩰

Most of the fragments had been carefully kept, so the first challenge was simply understanding how everything fitted back together. With a figure this intricate, each piece affects the next - from the dancer herself and the folds of her dress to the curling waves beneath her feet.

The pure white, highly glazed porcelain added another layer of difficulty. There was nowhere for a repair to hide, so alignment, filling, colour matching and the final finish all needed to be handled with particular care.

For the owner, though, the most important thing was seeing her ‘dancing girl’ complete again.

The figurine had been a gift from her late father, and she had thought it was lost for good. She told us that having it back “truly meant the world”.

Our latest blog follows the restoration in more detail, from the first fragments through to the finished figure.

09/10/2026

A woman sits beside a piano, surrounded by books, sheet music, flowers, ceramics, drapery and patterned textiles - all the detail of a richly furnished late 19th-century interior. 📚

Over time, some of that had become harder to see. The darker passages had begun to merge, while aged varnish and historic restoration had softened colour and detail across the composition.

Following careful assessment and testing, our conservators carried out cleaning, varnish removal and further treatment on L’embarras du Choix.. As those later layers were reduced, the sitter separated more clearly from the piano and surrounding shadows, and smaller details - including the flowers, ceramics, sheet music and a flash of red from her shoes - came back into clearer view.

Our recent case study takes a closer look at the painting, its history and the conservation work behind it. Read more about the restoration of L’embarras du Choix on our website.

02/10/2026

We are delighted to welcome Julia to the team as our new Painting Conservation Intern! 🖌️

Julia recently graduated with an MA in Conversation of Fine Art (Easel Painting) from Northumbria University and prior to this, she earned a BA in Fine Art from Falmouth University.

Julia has already begun working on a lovely oil painting by R. G. Hutchinson and working with Tom, our Frame Technician & Art Handler, to thoughtfully repair a frame for another oil painting.

Welcome, Julia! We’re excited to see the brilliant work you’ll be doing in our studio, and we’re glad to have you here. 👋

30/09/2026

Recent snippets from our studio, including an exciting and unique project, working on a Swarvoski peacock 🦚

Louisa has begun consolidating this wonderful painting, before undertaking a surface clean. We’re excited to show you more on this piece as it undergoes further restoration. 🎪

Wik has been working on this dazzling Swarovski covered peacock which arrived in our studio with a layer of dust and a broken crest, with a previous repair visible. 🔍 After exploring various options to repair, we were delighted to have re-united this peacock with its crest, before undergoing retouching and a surface clean.

Elsewhere, Wik has also been busy consolidating this beautiful red lacquer screen, impacted by water damage. 🖌️

Another wonderfully varied and busy week in the studio!

23/09/2026

When you have an 18-metre blank wall, what do you do with it?… 🪼

We’ve been working on something a little different at our Cumbria studio.

As we expanded into a new space alongside our head office, we knew this large blank wall was an opportunity to create something distinctive. So, before the floors went down and the structure went up, we welcomed to transform it.

Working across the full length of the wall, L7 created this striking jellyfish mural, bringing colour, movement and a real sense of character to the space.

It’s been amazing to watch the artwork take shape!

A huge thank you to for bringing the idea to life, and to our friends at for helping make it happen. 🪼

18/09/2026

Anna has been working on this beautiful oil painting this week, by Parisian artist Georges Jeannin. 💐

After carefully removing the aged, yellowed varnish and cleaning the surface, the painting’s beautiful colours and detail have been revealed once again. An isolation layer has also been applied to protect the original paint before the areas of loss were filled and carefully retouched.

Now finished, we’re delighted to be soon reuniting this beautiful piece with its owner. 🚚

It has been a pleasure to work on, and we’re so pleased with the finished result.

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11/09/2026

Kintsugi asks us to look at a repaired object differently.

Kintsugi, meaning ‘golden joinery’, is a centuries-old Japanese approach to repairing broken ceramics. 🌟

The damage and repair are not simply treated as something to move past - the break lines are retained and the joins finished with gold, creating a visible record of the object’s history.

We recently worked on this much-loved vintage ginger jar, recovered in dozens of fragments after an accident. Its owner had spent three years looking for another, but chose to restore the original. We were delighted to help bring it back together, carefully cleaning, aligning and reconstructing each fragment before refining the joins and applying delicate 23.75 carat gold leaf. 🖌️✨

This September, Tennants Auctioneers is holding a dedicated Kintsugi auction, with 69 pieces in the sale and proceeds going to Cancer Research UK. It’s a chance to see the many different ways this approach can be interpreted across ceramics, while supporting an important cause.

🔗 Read more about the modern Kintsugi restoration of this ginger jar via the link in our bio.

09/09/2026

Early-September snippets from our studio.

Sabrina is continuing work on this beautiful wooden panel portrait, sympathetically retouching, filling in colour and mimicking the artist’s brushstrokes. 🖌️

Wik has been working on a pair of 17th-century sculptural Italian antique table legs, beginning by adding carving to missing sections, before sanding, toning and varnishing.

Our logistics team has been busy preparing the return of a large collection of artwork to our client’s home. The collection arrived at our studio in 2024 and, following its restoration, has been carefully stored with us. We’re now delighted to be preparing the collection for its journey home. 🚚

It’s lovely to have such a variety of work coming through our studio, from paintings and objects to ceramics and furniture - each carrying its own story.

04/09/2026

Our objects conservator, Amy, has been working her magic on this beautiful porcelain plate 🪄

Arriving in the studio in 5 pieces, Amy began with a detailed assessment of the piece, before cleaning the break edges ⛓️‍💥

After carefully introducing adhesive into the breaks by capillary action and removing any excess, tinted fills were applied to the tiny losses and carefully refined 🖌️ Finally, the small amounts of missing detail were thoughtfully retouched.

The result: a beautiful plate, now back in one piece!

02/09/2026

When this pair of oil paintings arrived at our Cumbria studio, they had been heavily impacted by smoke exposure, leaving strong discolouration across both pieces 🌫️

After hours of careful consolidation, surface cleaning and retouching, it has been wonderful to reveal the original colours and details of the landscapes, bringing them closer to how the artist intended them to be seen.

What was once darkened and discoloured has now been transformed, revealing these landscapes in their true form once again.

As industrialisation transformed the English landscape, the Victorian home offered a retreat from the smog, noise and rapid change of the growing industrial world. Paintings such as these brought an idealised vision of the countryside indoors, evoking a quieter, more familiar way of life 🌳

These nostalgic rural scenes offered more than decoration. They reflected a sense of national identity and attachment to the countryside, presenting an idyllic vision of rural life that still resonates today in the way we romanticise Britain’s past.

It was a privilege to restore these pieces and witness the paintings come back to life 🖼️

Address

Unit 3 Podmore Road
London
SW181AJ

Telephone

+442071127576

Website

https://www.fineart-restoration.co.uk/

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