Fine Art Restoration

Gallery de Boer – Fine Art & Jazz has always had clients whose needs include fine art restoration. Paintings will age, get layered with grime from the environment, rip, crack or otherwise degrade. Similarly, frames are subject to damage and dirt and need restoration.

Collectable pottery, porcelaiy, majolicy and other unique art objects can be damaged and need expert restoration. These conditions demand expert fine art restoration. You can recapture the values of your treasured work of art.

Michael Anderson is a leading Canadian fine art restoration expert. After years of providing professional services to leading galleries and retailers such as Houghton’s, the Gold Shoppe and Birks from his former studio near Peterborough, Michael has continued his distinguished career for the past three years from a new base of operations, Gallery de Boer – Fine Art & Jazz, in Owen Sound.

Michael, who is also recognized as a painter and sculptor, says: “It is important to be able to create your own art in many mediums to be a good art restorer and conservationist. I always knew that I would become an artist and I have worked in the arts most of my life. I look back on my career with pride when I think of the hundreds of pieces that I have given new life and I always keep in mind St. Francis of Assisi’s words: A man who works with his hands is a laborer, a man who works with his head and his hands is an artisan, a man who works with his head, his heart and his hands is an artist”

Environmental damage and airborne pollutants are the prime offenders in damaging fine art objects. Michael has been solving those problems for many clients over many years including the Eaton family, the Flavelles, Clayton Ruby and the owners of a mastodon tooth and a cave bear tooth. Collectable natural history objects can also require expert restoration skills.

Gallery de Boer has been involved in heritage art restoration for some time, with clients that include many private collectors and institutional clients. The Gallery’s work has included architectural detailing restoration, murals, other paintings and icons.

With the addition of Michael, his expertise and portfolio of decades of succesful restoration services to Gallery de Boer’s fine art restoration program, we have expanded our conservation area with two new labratories to provide better in-house capability to meet your restoration needs.

Contact us at Gallery de Boer – Fine Art & Jazz in downtown Owen Sound, Ontario Canada with your restoration needs, meet Michael Anderson and we will create a specific plan for restoring value to your treasured collectibles and fine art works.