09/02/2012
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				Dr. Harriet Standeven is a London-based paintings conservator. She has experience working with a wide range of traditional and modern paintings, but specialises in the care of modern and contemporary art. She has worked as a freelance conservator since 2000, and offers museum-quality conservation to a range of clients. From 2004 until 2009 she worked as a tutor for RCA/V&A Conservation, a wholly postgraduate conservation programme run jointly by the Royal College of Art and the Victoria and Albert Museum. Her research interests include artists' use of non-traditional paints, and she has published widely in this field. Current Research Students Harriet's past and present research supervision is in the following areas: From dreams and visions and things not known: Technique and process in David Smith's drawings (Richard Mulholland, PhD, RCA/V&A Conservation, 2010) Hans Holbein the Younger (1497/8-1543): an investigation into his choice and use of materials and techniques, with particular reference to his portrait drawings (Victoria Button, PhD, RCA/V&A Conservation)