Jay Blades leads his team of restoration experts on season 12 of BBC show The Repair Shop, with new heirlooms brought into the workshop each week
The Repair Shop host and upholsterer Jay Blades for the newest series of the popular BBC show. He will be joined by experts including metal worker Dominic Chinea, clock restorer Steve Fletcher, and leather worker Suzie Fletcher.
Also putting their skills to good use in the Hampshire workshop are carpenter Will Kirk, toy restorers Amanda Middleditch and Julie Tatchell, ceramics conservator Kirsten Ramsay, and painting conservator Lucia Scalisi.
Each week, the Repair Shop team will take on new challenges as owners bring in items of highly personal value that are in need of major restoration work. This is what you can expect from the first episode of the new series:
The season 12 premiere will feature restorations of four heirlooms, each with their own uniquely interesting history. The first item to receive the Repair Shop treatment is a 19th century painting of the Madonna and Child, brought to the workshop by Maria.
The painting first hung in a Ukrainian church, where Maria’s family came from - the artwork was folded up and hidden away by Maria’s grandmother before she was deported to a forced labour camp in Germany during the Second World War.
Due to the painting's age, and through the best efforts of Maria’s family to keep it safe, it sustained damage, with cracks appearing on the surface of the painting. Paintings conservator Lucia Scalisi will do her best to restore the work to its former glory, and Maria plans to return it one day return it to the Church in Ukraine where it belongs.
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