RESTORATION
DON'T LEAVE YOUR CHERISHED HISTORY DAMAGED OR DETERIORATING.
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YES, we wholesale all services to qualified businesses.
Heirloom Art Studio ships original paintings, portraits, and photographic and fine art restoration worldwide and owner, Kathryn Rutherford, considers it a privilege and honour to care for and preserve your priceless family collections entrusted to her expert and skilled hands. Kathryn will preserve your family history, turn your images into archival works of reproduction photography, create original portraits or fine art, or restore your painting and portrait collections.
Heirloom Art Studio offers photographic conservation and restoration of original photographs, copy and duplication, special photographic processes developed by, and only available at, Heirloom Art Studio and uses both traditional historic and digital restoration methods.
Kathry Rutherford is one of the few remaining restoration artisans qualified and trained to work on original photographs and fine art.
Kathryn Rutherford is a highly educated Master Fine Artist internationally recognized for her exceptional fine art and restoration skills by such companies as Eastman Kodak Company, Fujifilm Corporation, Epcot Center, Florida, American Kennel Club, Golden Retriever Club of America, and the East Tennessee Historical Society. A Certified Retouch Artist in Ontario, Canada, she holds the Master Artist and Photographic Craftsman Degree as well as Lifetime Membership from the Professional Photographers of America. As well, she holds the Photographic Artist and Laurel Degrees from the American Photographic Artisans Guild.
Whether your needs are to repair and eliminate simple cracks and tears, water damage, and general acts of neglect of your collections or whether you need entirely new body parts and backgrounds you can be assured that as long as there is information to work with Kathryn Rutherford can rid, remove, or re-invent what is needed to create quality photographic restorations of your cherished heirlooms.
The Heirloom Art Studio still prints photographs in the darkroom, prints on fiber base papers, prints from negatives, slides, glass negatives, and transparencies, restores and preserves original photographs and fine art paintings and retouches, restores, copies and duplicates photographic images both digitally as well as using traditional historic restoration processes. Each reproduction photograph is printed on archival paper and balanced for maximum density, detail, and colour.
Whether you need to repair and restore your vintage original photographs and paintings using archival conservation methods that will preserve your family's genealogy and collections for generations to come, or you need retouching, alteration, restoration, and duplication of images for family viewing, sharing or special gift giving, Heirloom Art Studio is the place you can trust for expert skills, advice, education, and fine art and restoration services.
REMEMBER...when it becomes necessary to alter the photographic family history that can be done as well. The first example might be the elimination of Kathryn Rutherford's Ex-Husband but, Kathryn gives equal time to the removal of the ladies. Not all removal projects have to be vindictive. Sometimes you just have to remove the bowling team in order to record family history members by themselves for posterity.
100% Satisfaction Guarantee that Kathryn Rutherford Fine Art and Heirloom Art Studio will meet, or exceed, your most heartfelt expectations, the needs of your family history, fine art and photographic collections, creative original fine art desires, and indulge you with superior personal attention and Customer Care.
FINE ART RESTORATION
In addition to traditional award-winning photographic restorations and original fine art paintings and portraits, Heirloom Art Studio provides archival cleaning and restoration of paintings on wood panel, glass, ceramic, canvas and canvas board. Other works of art can also be restored depending upon the materials.
PLEASE NOTE: WE DO NOT OFFER FINE ART APPRAISALS AND OFFER ONLY LIMITED PAPER RESTORATION.
Heirloom Art Studio will duplicate paper documents, prints, watercolour paintings, and drawings, and restore the duplicates to perfection, but may limit what can be done with an original painting on paper or original document to what owner, Kathryn Rutherford, determines is within her area of expertise and technical offerings. Paper restoration is an entirely different service than restoration of oil, acrylic, glass, watercolour, canvas, and wood panel paintings and she will do only what she is highly qualified to execute.
ONE OF THE MORE UNIQUE RESTORATION PROJECTS...
As the Patron Saint of the customer's home town in Italy, this St. Joseph statue, made in approximately 1883, was shipped from Italy to Canada when the family moved from one country to another. The statue, which stood almost three feet tall, had suffered various forms of damage both from handling over the years and as a result of shipping.Damage was extensive and complicated. The infant Christ figure was broken completely away from the rock, his left hand was broken at the wrist and three fingers were either missing or broken off completely. Both of St. Joseph's feet were separating from the ground on which he stood. Replacement halos were made of coat hanger wire wrapped with aluminum foil. The crook (or staff) was missing the top rounded section and silk lilies were wired around the top of the remaining shaft. St. Joseph had no thumb on his right hand and no baby finger on his left. Various cracks, chips and broken sections were found throughout the statue and, due to changes in humidity and shipping between the two countries, the wooden base materials had begun to shift, swell and crack. The customer suggested using a hammer to knock the wood sections back into place, but, was convinced that this is never a recommended restoration procedure. The entire piece was covered in a layer of oily grime and dirt from years of neglect.
It was decided that the statue should be encased in glass so as to protect it for future generations. The customer requested that the base of the statue's misalignment be hidden instead of attempting to return the altered wood to its original position. In this manner, the statue could not only be permanently secured, so as to prevent it from ever being knocked
over, but, the base could be widened to extend beyond the width of the shoulders giving the work better proportion and a more solid base.Choosing an imported Italian picture frame moulding, an ornate base and lid were created while the task of creating the brass-wrapped, beveled glass walls was subcontracted to a local glass manufacturer. Upon completion of the work (which took nearly one year), the statue and it's case were delivered to the owner's newly built custom home.
A specially designed and lit niche had been added into the construction plans where the statue was permanently installed for family and friends to admire and worship.