Professor Colin Pearson: ‘one of the most versatile and capable conservators of his generation’Footnote^†

† Colin Pearson received the 2003 ICCROM Award, where he was praised as ‘clearly among the most versatile and capable conservators of his generation. […] His informal manner, his ability to motivate and inspire, have made him a mentor and colleague to so many of those practicing conservation today’. See https://www.iccrom.org/news/colin-pearson-1941-2016. Viewed 1 March 2018.

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