With regret I have closed PaperBack conservation studio and gallery.

I have child care needs and want to keep family, friends and customers safe.

I hope to reopen the business as soon as possible and thank you for your support.

Stay at Home.

PaperBack Studio will be closed for the half term week – 17th to the 21st of February.

I am available by appointment during this week.

Some other important dates for your diary:

From 4th April 2020 PaperBack studio will be open on Saturdays throughout the season 10 – 2.

On Saturday the 11th of April, PaperBack in collaboration with Art on Paper, will be having our Easter Opening from 10 – 4.

Please join us for some Simnel Cake, quality Art works and chat about Conservation.

High excitement at PaperBack this morning with the Christmas decorations going up ready for Wednesdays Christmas Cheer.  Thank you to the wonder woman that is Katy Art on Paper  and the inset day elves Gala and Laura.

My lovely friend Katy is having an open day at her Gallery on Portland this Saturday 9th November.  She has amazing and unusual works of art on paper presented with care.

art on paper

Paper Back will be open on Saturdays and Wednesdays 10 – 2 or by appointment.

Have a great summer.

Starting from this weekend (6th April).

Open on Mondays, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturdays 10 – 2.

Any other times by appointment.

I could never find a decent map of papers amazing journey from China to the rest of the world.   So here is mine showing the important dates and destinations.

Please click to view.

Paper History Migration Map

Philip Sutton: My Shakespeare

March 2nd – May 4th Bridport Arts Centre

Philip Sutton has been a strong supporter of the Globe Theatre which was established through his friendship with the architect Theo Crosby and the American actor Sam Wanamaker. Sam spent many years in the 50s trying to get the Globe Theatre off the ground, which Philip supported by producing posters becoming a friend of the project.

Bridport Arts Centre

I worked on this Philip Sutton print ( St Ives c. 1967 )to remove the water damage at the bottom of the paper.  Work included dry cleaning,  blotter washing and deacidification.

A controversial character but a wonderful sculptor, printmakers and typeface designer.  I have worked on a couple of his prints before but I recently had the pleasure of working on a rare certificate and medal designed by Gill for Industrial Heroism.

It was a private civil award given by the Daily Herald newspaper to honour examples of heroism carried out by ordinary workers. Many of the 440 awards were posthumous.

The Order was instituted in 1923^[1] by the Daily Herald specifically to recognise the deeds of valour of those who had saved their fellow workers from danger or death. It was popularly known as the “Workers’ VC“.^[2]

The institution of the medal was prompted by an incident in which four dockworkers helped control a major fire in the Liverpool docks, thereby saving the docks, shipping and a large part of the city, but were offered a reward of only £17, provoking a public outrage.^[3]

The Daily Herald was the official organ of the Trade Union Congress and one of the world’s best-selling newspapers at the time.

The award was presented up to 1964, when the newspaper closed.

After dry cleaning and testing the pigments the certificate was washed and deacidified.  The medal ribbon was very fragile and I supported it at the pin with a melanex tab and at the ring that the medal hangs from with linen string.  The board was cut  so that the medal would sit inside the rebate.  The verso of the medal could be viewed by lifting the middle board and therefore not touching the metal.