A can of Renaissance Wax was spotted in The Sunday Telegraph today, in the hands of Sculptor Ben Russel. He was applying Renaissance Wax as the finishing touches to  ‘ Folk ‘, a beautiful piece that was carved from a single piece of stone weighing 350Kg. The work took two months to complete, chiseling eight hours a day. Ben uses Renaissance Wax to finish most of his alabaster work, as he says it  enhances the luminescence of the alabaster. 

“ Folk was created throughout the lock down period and is by far my most complex and intricate fungi sculpture to date! At a time when we can’t meet up in large groups I wanted to make this piece about the physical act of being together ”.
The artist who draws his inspiration from the natural world and in particularly the fungi family, finely balanced the proportions of the mushroom cap’s to form the all in one carving measuring nearly three feet in height and valued at £9,000.

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Antique Bronze specialises in restoration and conservation of bronze. The following enquiry came to them from Pembroke College in Oxford; this bronze sculpture had been in storage for a while and needed to be cleaned before it could be displayed in a promininent area in the college. The expects at Antique bronze recommended Vupex liquid soap to remove the stubborn dirt, followed by a  few coats of Renaissance Wax for the statues protection. 

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In Season 3, Episode 13 of the BBC’s ‘The Repair Shop, Blacksmith conservator Matthew Boultwood was tasked with a tricky repair to a 30-kilo cast iron statue of the Roman God Hercules. The statue had taken pride of place in a town’s Heritage Centre, until an unfortunate accident broke Hercules into two pieces. Matthew was able to repair the damage seamlessly, and applied Renaissance Wax as the finishing touch to ensure that ‘the statue is good for another 150 years’ (Matthew Boultwood).