Kept Art Restoration
Fine art restoration, art cleaning and conservation, cultural heritage preservation, diagnostics, conservation and restoration services with a specialty in paintings, frames and works on paper.
Advanced non-invasive diagnostics and digital imaging including reflectance transformation imaging (RTI), polarized light photography, UV fluorescence, raking light photography, and parallel photography.
Pigment identification and matching, and inpainting. Frame repair and gilding. Virtual restoration of photographs and other images.
Providing detailed reports on the history and condition of cultural heritage artifacts for insurance purposes and as research to inform treatment strategies.
Established in 2012.
Following head restorer Elisa Stewart's cultural heritage restoration/conservation training in Florence, she joined forces with digital media specialist Mike Jennings to establish a private practice serving the South Bay Area. together they provide state of the art techniques with old world finesse.
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