Articles by Jonna Lange

We look back on a year with many exciting seminars and courses.

Thank you to all the tutors and every participant who joined us to further their interest/studies within the field of conservation!

Thank you to everybody who participated in the course on 3rd October. We are grateful to the National Galleries of Scotland to have hosted this course and to Joyce Townsend for sharing your vast experience and knowledge.
Participants learned about materials, painting processes, examination methods, analytical techniques. light sensitivity, colour measurement and microfading.
We had the rare chance to take advantage of the Vaughan Bequest of Turner watercolours while they are in the conservation studio and unframed.

We have a number of exciting courses and seminars coming this Autumn, please see below. We will announce more once we have further details.

Two weeks of learning about Hydrogels with Matt Cushman in Edinburgh and Glasgow have come to an end. A big thank you to all the participants!

Thank you also to the wonderful teams at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art and of the Kelvin Centre for Conservation at the University of Glasgow!

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We have a lot of new exciting seminars and courses planned for 2023!
Some of the seminars can already be found on our website now. There will also be some more in-person courses again in the UK and USA. Our enews subscribers will be informed first once we have all the details.

All of us at IAP send you Season’s Greetings, merry Christmas, happy Hanukkah and our best wishes to you for the holidays and the New Year!

Thank you to all the tutors and every participant who joined us to further their interest/studies within the field of conservation. We hope to see you again at our series of new seminars and courses we are planning starting in January 2023.

Our office building has now closed. We are therefore unable to answer phone calls, you can continue to reach us by email at info@academicprojects.co.uk

Caroline Rae has written a review of our virtual seminar ‘Girl with a Pearl Earring’ with Jørgen Wadum. The seminar took place on 7th April 2022. The review is published in the Autumn 2022 issue of The Picture Restorer. Please find an excerpt of the review below.

‘ (…) This detailed and thoughtful lecture, beautifully illustrated, with many slides containing close details of the artist’s painting techniques, as well as many illustrative comparative/ contextual examples, provided a wonderful journey for me from a rainy, dreich afternoon in Scotland back to the Dutch Golden Age. It was clear that the author and his collaborative colleagues have carried out far more extensive research into the artist’s practice (for example, the results of MA-XRF scanning (Macro X-ray Fluorescence scanning), which, due to reasons of space could only have a passing mention) and this fascinating introduction and the following discussion only left the attendee wanting to hear more.’