Cutajar Conservation

It’s all about the colours! 🎨 I've been focusing efforts during the COVID-19 shutdown on preparing oil paint mock-ups of Munch’s UiO Aula paintings.
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Before selecting materials for experimentation, conservators need to characterise them – here, you can see me analysing various chromium oxide green paints (shown in detail on canvas on the next photo) via FT-IR spectroscopy.
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The pandemic may have slowed down works, but once these mock-ups are ready, they’ll prove crucial to study how Munch’s unvarnished oil paints in the Aula can be cleaned safely, and how hyperspectral imaging can help to document this!
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@ Oslo, Norway

Just got my abstract on my doctoral research on Munch's Aula paintings accepted for the Paintings Session at the AIC 2020 Annual Meeting! 🥳✨ I hope to see you next May in Salt Lake City ✌️🏔️🏙️ • 📸: Wikimedia Commons
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✴️ Super proud to have made the front cover of Eisma's Schildersblad together with for our work at the this summer ✨✨
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@ Teylers Museum