David Fry Ceramics

Repairs/Restoration

Pottery and Art Conservation, Restoration and Repair..

My studio dose not have opening times, so please email with your enquiry and send photos of the work in need of repair.

Ceramics, Pottery, Art Works, Paintings, China, Figurines, Porcelain, Art Pottery, Sculpture – Restoration and Conservation – studio based in North Tyneside, Newcastle upon Tyne, England, U.K.

I offer a full service in repairing, restoring and conservation for broken, missing pieces, damaged or items showing wear and tear. Items can be Fired Clay, China, Porcelain, Sculpture, Tiles, Architectural features, Studio Pottery, Leach, Cardew, Lucie Rie, etc., Antiques, Parian Ware, Garden Urns, Objects of Art, Ornaments, Lamps and lights, Meissen, Roman, Medieval, etc. The items can be made from single or a combination of materials including Wood, Terracotta, China, Metal, Stone, Plaster, Marble, Synthetics. Also Paintings and Works of Art, etc.

My types of repair:

Museum Repair – This is where an item is carefully consolidated and repaired but no attempt is made to hide the repair, an example is the ancient items you see in museums where missing areas that have been repaired and filled can be clearly seen, as they like to show in museum displays the old and the “new” repaired areas.

Tidy Repair – Items are repaired fixed together missing areas filled and painted to match in as much as possible, but the finished repair is not invisible. The item will be consolidated for to display however the repair will be visible in most cases i.e. the lines of the joins and replaced parts and the colour matching. However depending on the object’s material and colour/texture a blending in close to invisible repair is occasionally possible. On the whole repairs to white and plain coloured pottery/porcelain the join lines and colouring in will be visible, and on heavily patterned/textured items less so.

NOTE – if its a totally invisible restoration you are looking for, there are many restorers that do offer this service can be found by searching the Internet.

Including- The Ancient Japanese Art of Kintsugi (Japanese Gold Repair)

Please note restored items are only suitable for display, hot liquids, water, high temperatures, direct sunlight, outdoor use, food/cooking use, washing up, etc. will damage the restoration work..

Please supply/email photos of damage if you can, so I can process your enquiry as quickly as possible.

Items can be posted to me, box and pack them well and send by ‘Tracked Post’. Or by arrangement pieces can be brought directly into my studio in North Tyneside. Also some projects/restorations can be carried out on-site.

Please Note – If posting to me I will return the item by ‘signed for’ delivery and in a much larger box than the item. The return postage cost will be extra.

For enquiries and estimates, please email and send photos of the item.

The cost is based on the time taken to repair, so how many pieces the item is in, how large the item is, weather any pieces are missing and need to be remade/modelled/filled and coloured to match in, and if any old glue or repairs have to be removed and cleaned up first. Please note if the item is in too many pieces my type of repair may not be possible, but I will be able to tell from the photos you send.

I can also undertake restoration/cleaning work on Paintings, Furniture, Sculptures and other Art works.

Pictures of a recent project to restore a broken classical garden Urn in Knightsbridge, London.