After an MSc in Management and 25 years of a successful professional life in Marketing and Advertising, two consecutive life awakening events had me rethinking my path to true happiness. At 46, I decided to get out of my comfort zone, and to embrace and pursue the vocation for heritage conservation I knew I had since I was 13. With a clearly formulated drive for my life, “to perform little miracles for others”, I quit everything, relocated to London and started studying again.
I enjoyed my MA Conservation course at UAL Camberwell College tremendously, as well as my internships in prestigious institutions such as the British Museum, the Royal Collections or UCL.
Today, I am a Conservator specialised in Paper and Books as well as an Experienced Communications Strategist with a demonstrated history of working in private and institutional sectors in both fields. I am also a self-taught design-bookbinder.
I particularly enjoy the forensic and scientific sides of conservation as well as integrating the ethos of the institutions I collaborate with in my work and the context in which the objects I treat were created or used and are relevant to present and future stakeholders. I also get great pleasure from the creativity required to solve conservation challenges, and dramatic Before & After pictures.
With a life divided among London, San Francisco, Lisbon and Limoges, I can work in French, English, Spanish and Portuguese-speaking environments.