Introduction:

There are plenty of art studios that advertise "museum quality copies" of famous antique paintings. However on close examination it becomes obvious that they are just that, copies lacking the quality of a true masterpiece and the fine painting only found on genuine antique paintings.

I have been creating high-class reproduction paintings for over thirty years. My life has been dedicated to perfecting the methods and techniques of painting from the old masters to the moderns. My works are made specifically for decorators, connoisseurs and collectors who demand absolute perfection nothing less than impeccable recreations that even the best experts would believe to be period works of art.

Each painting is subjected to a unique process of aging that matches precisely the actual affects of age on antique paintings.

The cracking process I've developed creates a cracking pattern exactly as they occur on period paintings over the course of time.

This is not a chemically induced "crackalure" commonly used by those who advertise the "museum Quality copy". Such cracks are instantly recognizable to the trained eye.

Instead my process sets up the same conditions that produce natural cracks in their characteristic patterns in an excelerated process. The final effect simply has to be seen to be believed.

Apart from the cracking each painting goes through hours of finishing work to create a surface that displays all the subtle signs of age, such as losses, abrasions and cracks that one would naturally expect to see on a genuine antique painting.

Finally, all works unless otherwise stated undergo a complete "restoration" process including a relining just as most antique paintings would. They are mounted on a 19th century style "English" stretchers. And the aging doesn't stop on the front. For me the reverse side of a painting is just as important (and fascinating) as the front. As the photos on this web site will show, each painting can be viewed from the back and has the appearance of a painting that was restored at the turn of the century; 1800 to 1900.

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