Sarah Cove

BIOGRAPHY

Sarah Cove is an accredited paintings conservator-restorer, technical art historian and lecturer with more than 35 years of experience working on paintings for the heritage and private sectors. She is based in London and Falmouth and specialises in British portraits, 19th-20th century British landscapes and oil sketches on paper and board. In 1986, she founded the Constable Research Project, and she is now the leading authority on Constable’s materials and techniques. She has appeared on several TV programmes for the BBC, notably Constable in Love with Andrew Graham-Dixon and twice on Fake or Fortune? where she was instrumental in the discovery of 3 ‘lost’ Constables. Other research interests include Tudor and Jacobean Portraiture, the 19th-century Newlyn and St Ives schools and early-to-mid 20th-century British painting generally: she has been a lecturer for The Arts Society since 2003. She is an experienced international speaker, lecturing independently at major public and gallery venues across the UK, USA, Australia and New Zealand. Her presentations are lively and enthusiastic as she speaks without notes with an inimitable passion that comes from presenting her own work and research with wonderful images.

TALKS

1. “My scrambling affair”: How Constable’s ‘Late Paintings’ changed the face of Modern Art
2. A day in the life of a Picture restorer: The Conservation and Restoration of easel paintings
3.  Fakes and Fortunes! (or have I found a Constable in my attic?)
4. The Painting Conservation Roadshow