Welcome to my website

I have been a full-time professional ceramics restorer since 1985, running my own business from my cottage home in rural Lincolnshire. I trained by having private tuition with a renowned international restorer with over 40 years experience and was taught to work to the highest professional standards and to deliver the very best quality service to all clients.

My aim is to provide a top-quality, caring service in all the work I do with every project being treated with equal importance, irrespective of whether the job is big or small. I believe my charges of £16.00 per hour, no VAT, are probably the lowest in the United Kingdom for the top quality standards I achieve. I also try to complete work quickly for clients so they do not have the long waiting times often associated with restoration specialists.

Restoration may take the form of:

Museum Conservation by which broken pieces are glued carefully back together and any gaps or holes are simply filled with a proprietary filling and rubbed smooth. The very minimum amount of new material is used in this technique which is usually employed with rare and valuable items simply to conserve them.

'Invisible Restoration' by which the restorer endeavours to make the item appear as though it has not been damaged/broken. The aim is to repair the piece so that it can be displayed and enjoyed again without the restoration being noticed.

Examples of this include missing parts for figurines being sympathetically remanufactured (see photos) including heads, fingers, hands and legs; broken items being put back together so they look as though they have never sustained damage; chips to plates, jugs and vases being restored so as to be undetectable and so on...

Items I have restored range from the very valuable to pieces of sentimental value only with little or no commercial value. My most difficult commission so far was the restoration of a rare pottery jug which was smashed into 109 pieces though most items require far less work! One sentimental value piece involved the restoration of a broken small pottery figure of the Pink Panther (from the Peter Sellars films), probably worth only a few pence, but of great sentimental value to the lady who brought it to me as it had belonged to her son who loved it and he had been killed in a motor cycle accident. It really was a great pleasure to return her son's little animal looking as though it had never been broken.

All enquiries from dealers, private customers, insurance companies and auction houses are welcome and I guarantee a prompt response. International service is no problem. All work, whether large projects or small simple repairs, will receive my very best care and attention at all times.