Associates

Seonaid (“Shona”) McArthur is a certified appraiser of Fine Art specializing in Contemporary, American, and European Art, including painting, sculpture, prints, photography and some decorative arts. Since 2013, she has brought her passion for research, knowledge, and love of art from her years of working as a curator and educator in some of the world’s leading art museums including the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Musée d’Orsay and Louvre Museums, in Paris. Appraisals can range from a verbal approximation of value to a report that meets the requirements for estate settlement and planning, charitable donation, or insurance of fine art. Seonaid can also assist with the sale of your art through her contacts with America’s finest auction houses. Accredited by the American Society of Appraisers, she is fully trained in the appraisal process and the Uniform Standards of Appraisal Practice (USPAP). Seonaid has a Doctorate in Education (Ed.D.) from the University of Southern California, and Masters of Art in Art History (M.A.) from the University of California, Santa Barbara. She lives and works in La Jolla and Southern California.

Sarah Murray is a paintings conservator in private practice in San Diego, with over 35-year’s experience. Sarah did her post grad training in Easel Painting Conservation at the Hamilton Kerr Institute, University of Cambridge in England. Following an internship at the National Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland Sarah was hired as Assistant Paintings Conservator for the Conservation Department of the National Gallery. In 1991, Sarah came to San Diego to take up the position of Associate Paintings Conservator at the Balboa Art Conservation Center, where she worked for ten years. In 2001, she opened her private practice, and has a business alongside her partner, Janos Novak at JDewers Custom Framing and Fine Arts Services, offering a full range of conservation of paintings, frames and gilded objects, and museum-quality and custom framing. Sarah is a member of the American Institute for Conservation and the Western Association of Conservation.

To contact Sarah directly:
619-261-7813
sarahm@jdewers.com
www.artrestoration-sandiego.com

Sara Stratton of Redwood Digital Publishing, LLC, helps her clients to write and independently publish books that they use to preserve their family history, record their personal memoirs, educate their readers on a topic they are passionate about, or promote their services. Sara is an Amazon Kindle best selling business ghostwriter, and edited an international best selling marketing/business book, and has collaborated on or edited over 80 books with. She graduated from University of California, Irvine with a degree in Journalism (Print and Broadcast) and hosted her own radio show in 2011.

Sabrina Carli is an objects conservator with over 25 years in the field.  She has held primary positions the conservation departments of the J. Paul Getty Museum, The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, English Heritage and the Royal Pavilion Art Gallery and Museums, Brighton.  Trained in London and Oxford, England and Berkeley California, she established Carli Fine Art Conservation, a private practice serving art collectors, institutions and municipalities in Southern California in 2005. She is an Associate Member of the American Institute for Conservation, an Individual Member of the Western Association of Art Conservators and the Objects Conservator for the California Art Services Alliance (CASA).  www.carlifineartconservation.com