Beloved Treasures Back to Life
Fine Art Restoration and Conservation in Vancouver, Serving The World’s Top Galleries, Museums, Auction Houses and Collectors.
The Practice
Fukumaru Ceramic & Glass Art Restoration, a professional studio located in Vancouver and The Sunshine Coast, offers high museum-quality conservation and restoration of antiques and contemporary art objects, including sculpture, decorative arts, ceramics, porcelain, glass, plaster, marble, ivory, and metal. The studio also offers authentic Kintsugi, which is a five-hundred-year-old method of restoring damaged ceramics, seen as enhancing their beauty and value by celebrating their imperfection and impermanence.
A conservator, Naoko Fukumaru has been serving institutions and individuals in North America, Europe, Japan, and Egypt.
Byzantine Dish Shipwreck 330 - 1453 (Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY, Conservation Department Imaging Lab)
Testimonials
“I am struck by Naoko’s remarkable skill level she displays in her kintsugi work. She undertakes the most difficult ‘brokenness’ of some things as a challenge and completes them creatively with equipoise. …. I find her exceptionally talented and skilled with particular conservation projects, but also creative in the ‘art of mending’. The final results are often surprising in their innovation and beauty. …. She is also very sociable, perceptive, and attentive to the owner’s feelings for the artwork and its condition, and can bring a wealth of knowledge to the situation.”
— Glenn Lewis - a Canadian contemporary artist.
“I worked in the Conservation Department of a major art museum in the United States for over 30 years. During that time I was privileged to work alongside Naoko and see her take on seemingly impossible restoration projects. Her skill level and robust knowledge are up for any challenge.”
— Paul Cooney - a former photographer at the Detroit Institute of Art
“Naoko is a very talented art conservator and artist in her own right. Using Western or Asian techniques, she sensitively conserves objects to a high standard and returns objects to a complete and attractive state. ”
— Margaret Burnham - a former conservator at hte Birmingham Museum of Art
Roman Marble Bust 1st century AD (Courtesy of Detroit Institute of Arts, Conservation Department Imaging Lab)