Gamblin

GAMBLIN is a particularly dedicated manufacturer of high-quality colors that are ideal for restoring.

Since its founding in 1980, the Portland, Oregon, the company has earned an excellent reputation among restorers, museums and artists around the world. GAMBLIN produces colors not just as they used to be, but as they should be for a variety of restorative needs. GAMBLIN’s experiences and the dialogue with restorers and museums formed the Conservation Colors range: fully saturated colors, soluble in solvents with low polarity, extremely lightfast, excellent reversibility, none-yellowing, and first-class processing characteristics distinguish these colors.

Specialized products such as “Extender White,” and colors for different epochs simplify the retouching in the restoration.

Professionals appreciate the high-quality standard of GAMBLIN Conservation Colors - and the works of great artists from different eras have been restored using Conservation Colors.

STABLE RESIN: Performing artificial aging (approximately 3,000 hours are equivalent to 62 years of exhibition time) shows, that the samples retain their solubility in mild solvents and that the resin is aging stable.
COMPLETELY SATURATED COLOUR: The high refractive index of the resin leads to a colour depth as by aged oil paints.
LIGHTFAST COLOURS: Only pigments or pigment mixtures of highest lightfastness are used

GAMBLIN preservative colours at Deffner & Johann – a successful collaboration

History and production of the colors

In the experts-to-experts talk between Robert Gamblin (founder of GAMBLIN Artists Colors and GAMBLIN Conservation Colors, Portland, USA) and Laura Resenberg (Diplom-Restauratorin Univ., head of the conservation department at the Collection and Research Centre in Hall/Innsbruck), you will gain in-depth insights into the history of the development of GAMBLIN Conservation Colors. You will also learn about the properties that characterise these colours and what makes them so special for use in conservation: