LACQUER STUDIOS

Kew Palace. The paint work looking glorious a year later after the Historical Linseed Oil, Lead Based Paint was applied

Linseed Oil, Lead Based Historical Paint. Matched with the very same pigments and material found under microscopic analysis of the first paint scheme from the 17th century; lead white, carbon black and burnt Siena in cold pressed Linseed oil .

Kew Palace looking glorious in a frosty sunny winter morning.

A piece of furniture that once belonged to Nancy Lancaster. This is one of my very first jobs back in the 1990’s. The fish designs were of particular interest as they have their bellies highlighted with rhodium that still to this day has not tarnished.

The Barge Walk Raillings next to the Tijou Screen at Hampton Court Palace. This colour was achieved by using the exact same materials as found in the scientific paint analysis backed up with historical research. On the original paint scheme, only two pigments were found, Vine Black and Lead white. The very same pigments were ground in linseed oil to reinstate this colour.

King William’s Orangery at Hampton Court Palace. Shutter treatment with traditional cold pressed Linseed oil and wax. These shutter had been damaged by the great fire at Hampton Court. They were further ‘treated’ by an application of a painted oak wood graining on top, and subsequently paint stripped. When I arrived to treat them, they looked really dry and displayed quite allot of the residue from the white undercoat used for the wood graining.