Lynton contributes article on laser cleaning to 2024 edition of The Building Conservation Directory
Lynton is proud to have been invited to instruct at the American Institute of Conservation's pre-session on laser cleaning at its annual conference in Salt Lake City in May this year.
Lynton hosts a laser cleaning workshop for conservators at the Museum of Islamic Art, Doha in February this year.
Lynton installs one of its Compact Phoenix laser systems in the Conservation department of Tokyo National Museums.
Lynton ran several laser cleaning workshops in 2023 in Gothenburg, Edinburgh, Cambridge and London.
Lynton has been busy this autumn installing new laser cleaning systems and training conservators in Germany and the United States.
Sally Strachey Historic Conservation Ltd. uses one of our rental Compact Phoenix systems to clean nine fragile terracotta and stoneware figures on the pediment of St. Stephen's Chapel, West Norwood Cemetery.
Last month Lynton travelled to the Cleveland Museum of Art in Ohio, United States to give a laser cleaning workshop.
Conservators at Geneva's Musee d'Art et d'Histoire decided to hire one of our Compact Phoenix systems for three months to clean ten funerary steles, altars and monuments for a forthcoming exhibition.
One of our Compact Phoenix systems, complete with both NdYAG (1064nm) and ErYAG (2940nm) laser handpieces, has finally arrived at its destination in western Turkey.
Conservators at the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek museum (Copenhagen, Denmark) have made excellent use of one of our rental systems to clean its ‘Naos with two kings’ from Hawara, Egypt (1750BC).
Lynton has teamed up with the world-renowned Physics department at Manchester University to conduct detailed research into ErYAG laser cleaning applications in conservation and, in particular, into the use of this wavelength for removing oxidised bronze paint from gilded surfaces including frames and furniture.