Preserve your investment and protect your important memories
with Gay Kingsley Art Conservation. Based in Scottsdale, Arizona, Dr. Kingsley has a reputation for restoring works of art utilizing the latest restoration techniques.
Dr. Kingsley has worked with museums, independent collectors, art galleries, professional framers, and antique shops.
In addition, Dr. Kingsley has worked with insurance and disaster restoration (fire & water) companies. This unique relationship allows you the piece of mind to not only have your valued artistic possession restored to it's original state, but also allows Kingsley to be the intermediary with the aforementioned companies.
Dr. Kingsley is the only professionally educated art conservator in the surrounding area. She will bring your most treasured pieces of art back to life.
Work History:
1968 - 2020:
As a proprietor of my own business, I have been working on restoration and consulting in the United States, Europe, Central, and South America, the Middle East, and the Caribbean. I was a disaster preparedness coordinator for the art and antiquities for the Eastern Caribbean during the 1980's. For the last 15 years, i have been a consultation to the Turkish government spending time in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus as a consultant consulting on the the restoration of their Greek Orthodox icons.
1970s: I taught fiber art (weaving and textiles) at the State University of New York.
1980s:
I was a textile curator at the Cortland Historical Society (part time).
1997 - 2008:
I am residing in Scottsdale, Arizona working as a conservator doing restoration and consulting. I continue to do work around the United States as well as outside the country.