A warm welcome to all Icon members from the Committee of the Icon Paintings Group. We have a regular programme of conferences and meetings spread throughout the year to which all members of Icon are warmly invited.
The talk will cover practical advice on topics such as:
Techniques in photographing 3-dimensional artworks and 2-dimensional
paintings; Tips to help if the artwork is behind glass; The sort of
equipment best required to do the job; Lighting techniques; Dealing with contrast
on old master pictures; Your Question and Answers.
Andrew Smart has spent the last 20 or so years of his working life in the field
of Fine Art Photography and in 2003 became the Director of A.C.Cooper.
A.C.Cooper is a company that has specialised in this field since 1918 and has
worked for many prestigious clients such as The Royal Collection, The Courtauld
Institute, The Whitt library and also Christie's, Sotheby's and Phillip's
auctioneers. The brand that A.C.Cooper offers is most popular with many major
galleries, artists, academics and independent collectors and their work and
reputation has taken them all over the world on a number of assignments.
Andy has been involved in the photography of many important
works of art for the purposes of academic research, Advertising, Insurance,
Point of Sale and website production. In 1994 he spent a year working in the
conservation workshop at the Wallace Collection where he helped with the
photography of artworks as well as gaining some hands on experience working in
a conservation studio and museum environment. Andy is still on hand and
regularly gives advice to the Wallace Collection and their in house photography
department on photographic issues as they arise.
Since 2003, digital photography has become the preferred
choice of tool for many clients although Andy is trained in the use of all film
formats and still gets asked to shoot them from time to time! He is also a
competent Black and White printer and darkroom technician.
Doors open at 6pm. Talk begins at 6.30pm prompt at the ICON
Office, 1 London Bridge, London SE1 9BG
Tickets: ICON members:
£5, non- members: £10
Please register by sending your name and stating if you are
an ICON member
Your name must be on the security list no later than Friday,
1st October 2010. Free wine and cheese inc. in price of ticket
RSVP
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or Clare Finn: 020 7937
1895
The three one-day conferences from which the papers in this title are taken were jointly hosted by Paintings Group of the Institute of Conservation (ICON) and the British Association of Painting Conservators-Restorers (BAPCR) and held at the Courtauld Institute in London in 2007. The conferences explored egg tempera retouching, resin retouching and retouching complex surfaces. Written by practising conservators, the papers in this volume discuss various approaches to retouching paintings and the challenges that they present. They cover the history behind techniques used today and also the scientific basis of conservation and restoration techniques.
Retail Price £39.50/$80.00
Reduced rate of £35 plus postage if you order from the Icon Paintings Group.
Please download a form here retouching_order to order your copy.
We encourage you to make full use of the which is currently up and running and accessible to Icon members. To visit the Discussion Board, log in with your username and password, then click on Group Forum. **The Group Forum Pages are currently suspended**
Please follow this link to see the Chair's report for 2009/2010. chairs_report_2010_paintings_group.
The Paintings group is also looking for ordinary committee members to join the committee. Duties would include attending bi-monthly committee meetings and assisting with paintings group events.
The Paintings’ Group committee seeks nominations for the post of Group Editor. Duties include deciding how best news and information should be presented either on the web or in Icon News. Working in conjunction with the Icon News editor, Lynette Gill. Working with the Icon Office updating, managing and refreshing information, news and events on the group’s web-pages. The Editor will also be expected to investigate new ways of clearly presenting information to members via the Icon website. The post is supported by the Group’s News Getting Officer.
We are seeking someone who is both motivated, full of ideas, who can work as part of a team to actively help the committee raise our profile.
No previous experience is necessary for either of these posts, but candidates should be enthusiastic with an organised approach and a keen interest in supporting our group.
If you are interested in either of these posts and would like to become part an exciting and dynamic group, please contact Rhiannon Clarricoates (group secretary) on
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How to make the Icon web page your internet browser homepage
:
Open Internet Explorer and go the website you want to use as your homepage (i.e. Icon). Click on on top tool bar, select , click on tab, in the Homepage box click on . (To restore the original homepage click Use Default in the Homepage box). Caution, Explorer is no longer supported by some websites.
Open Safari and go to preferences (menu bar, Safari, Preferences). Type in the home page URL in the appropriate space to make it the home page.
Alternatively, go to the home page in the usual way, and add a bookmark. It can them be selected instantly whenever you are connected, by pulling down the Bookmarks menu and selecting ICON.
It is possible to drag bookmarks on to the menu bar, making them even more readily available.
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