Millie | Illustrator | Visual Designer I Lecturer

RESTORATION 🎨

Late last year I was asked if I would be willing to help on a project restoring art work in a church. This was something I had never done before so although I was excited to start I was also full of apprehension, including laying awake at night worrying I’d fall off the scaffolding 🫣

The art work we were working on was in different states of disrepair; different ages, some parts had been repaired before and some totally removed due to damage.

Our goal was to keep as much original work as possible whilst ensuring the repair work blended in in terms of design and colour. While this was straight forward for small repairs, for whole panels that had been replaced I created digital traces from which stencils were made- from here we were able to keep the designs as close to the original as possible

I had a fantastic mentor and teacher throughout the project who I hope to work with again soon.
I had so much fun on this project and took so much away with me, by far my favourite project to date ✨

Here are some before and after… more to follow! 🥰

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