Kent based icon painter Peter Murphy travelled to Calgary in Canada in the first week of August to teach a group from SAGA , the Sacred Arts Guild of Alberta, traditional Byzantine Icon painting techniques. The course was held at St Stephens Ukrainian Church and was a huge success, thanks largely, according to Peter, to the excellent quality loose and transfer 23.5 carat Wright’s of Lymm gold used for backgrounds, halos and gilded decoration on the figures.
New Church Organ gilded using 23ct Gold Leaf, the new organ was not completely built from scratch from recycle equipment from the previous organ for use in the new instrument. The old pipes were refurbished and re-installation in the new organ. The new organ features hand carved wood ornamentation that is then gilded using 23ct gold leaf.
It’s with great sadness we learnt today, the passing of Robin Abbey in Edinburgh on Saturday 17th August .
Robin has been not only a customer of Wrights of Lymm for 50 plus years, he has also been a good friend, a great exponent of the craft of signwriting and a gentle, gentleman to deal with. All at Wrights of Lymm will miss his cheerful Southern and Scottish accent and we are all grateful and richer for knowing him.
Wrights of Lymm Team
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A pair of lost Japanese folding screens portraying the 1614 winter campaign of the Siege of Osaka have been brought back to life after painstaking work to reproduce them, including their original colours, using digital technology and an artisanal touch.
The restored artefact is a left-and-right pair of six-panel folding screens. The two painted sections are about 6 meters wide and about 1.7 meters high in total when they are placed side by side.
Under the supervision of experts, the project members restored the original colours with the help of digital technology. After an image was printed on paper, artisans manually placed gold leaf and silver leaf and other materials on it to give it a 3-D look. It took one and a half years to complete the work.
