Portfolio

A century of pyrite fears, sulphatic efflorescence and 1970s varnish repairs – and what the 2024 restoration actually found.

Red on red, brittle and poorly preserved – no beginner's piece, and what kind of bones these are has to stay secret for a while.

Removing the crust from a series of dinosaur bones – good colour contrast, but a fracture behind every square centimetre.

Scientific line drawing of Apolithabatis seioma, a Late Jurassic ray whose only known specimen was found during a blasting operation.

Digital painting of Petrodactyle – on head crests, sexual dimorphism and the handicap principle.

Digital painting of a hunting scene – ichthyosaurs chasing belemnites, for the Jura Museum Eichstätt.

The remaining biota of the Remigiusberg delta: fishes, invertebrates and tiny quadrupeds.

Digital painting of Bohemiacanthus – apex predator in the great lakes of the Early Permian.

Digital plate on the variety of brachiopods – pedicle, spines and frill as solutions for anchorage.

Digital plate on tabulate, rugose and scleractinian corals – for academic teaching.

Digital plate of the Palcephalopoda – from elongated Ordovician forms to the coiled nautiloids.

Digital timeline of large Late Palaeozoic fishes – Eusthenopteron, Ichthyostega, Orthacanthus.