Workshop Solvents and paint films: sustainable perspectives in practice
Registrations are now open! (link below)
Werkgroep Schilderijen + Duurzaamheid! This November, Gwendoline Fife will lead a workshop on Solvents and Paint Films: Sustainable Perspectives in Practice.
The lectures and workshop will focus on the fundamental properties and uses of solvents in conservation, with a particular emphasis on paintings. The solvents discussed will predominantly comprise those organic solvents most commonly used in the field and in accordance with the approaches of careful conservation practice, while also introducing some other solvent systems.
The aim of the workshop is to support students and practitioners in their practical applications of solvents, ensuring safer solvent use for art, us, and the world. This will be achieved by providing a review of knowledge with an overview, including research into solvent effects, current findings into solvent application techniques, assessing solvent hazards and impacts, defining greener solvents, and an open forum for discussions covering workshop participants’ questions, practical experiences and opinions regarding solvent choices and application.
- Matter and Energy - the basis of everything, and why anything ever happens.
- Modelling Solvent Behaviour - Dissolution and Rate – Will it dissolve? How fast? Conceptual models for solvent behavior.
- Research data for paint layers
- Safer solvent Selection – assessing hazards and minimizing contact
- Greener Solvents & Gels & Tissues – defining greener; practical testing approaches and greener solutions
The theoretical lectures will be open to everyone, whether you're an RN member or not.
The practical workshop will take place at CCNL and will be reserved for Restauratoren Nederland (RN) members.
📍 Theory (9 and 10 november) | Online
Two mornings, 10:00–12:30 CET
Open to conservators around the world
Free for RN members | €10 for non-members
📍 Practice (16 and 17 november) | CollectieCentrum Nederland, Amersfoort
Two full days, including lunch and snacks
RN members only | €100
Limited places available - Be fast!
Register via the following link:
https://www.eventbrite.nl/e/solvents-and-paint-films-sustainable-perspectives-in-practice-tickets-2002061034448/protected?aff=oddtdtcreator
