Laure Schaffert Perakis
Painting restorer
Chexbres

« Find the writing of the painter, his materials, his paw. Stay behind him. »

Laure Schaffert Perakis has always had a taste for painting. In 1997, after her artistic maturity, she left for France to obtain recognized training in the restoration of pictorial works. From 2002, she put her know-how into practice with the Jozef Trnka restoration workshop in Lausanne. She collaborates there, among other things, in the restoration of murals of historical monuments. During the same period, she also worked on the conservation-restoration of paintings and painted objects in her studio in Pampigny.

« Bringing light to an extinguished painting is a very rewarding job. »

In 2010, taking advantage of the accumulated experience, Laure Schaffert Perakis opened her new studio in Chexbres in a larger space, where she can improve her work tools, better receive her clients and continue to preserve the works of passing time. To conserve and restore a work while respecting it, you have to “step aside” in order to immerse yourself in the artist’s work. This implies an important work of observation and analysis from which stem the interventions to be carried out to save the support and find the colors, the brilliance and the depth of the original work.

Training:

2001, Diploma from the Workshop-school for the restoration of pictorial works, Châteaurenard, France

Notable works:

Conservation-restoration of wall paintings/on canvas/wallpaper (in collaboration with the Jozef Trnka workshop)
- Temple of Carouge
- Notre Dame de Cornavin
- Temple of St-Gervais
- Aigle Castle
- Oron Castle
- Château de Valeyres-sous-Rances
- St-Martin funeral home, Vevey
- Richemont headquarters, Bellevue

Conservation-restoration of paintings and painted objects:
- Neuchâtel clocks
- Painted cabinets
- Paintings by the painters Marten de Vos (16th century), GB Cipriani (17th century), Victor Mahu (17th century), Jacques d'Artois (17th century), GE Castan (19th century), ED Turrian (19th century), AA Geniole (19th century), RT Bosshard (20th century), Ric Berger (20th century), Pedro Coronel (20th century), Waldemar Fink (20th century) and other works by anonymous painters from the 16th to the 20th century.