Dr Joyce Townsend is senior conservation scientist at Tate, where she works closely with numerous conservator colleagues. She has carried out research for over 30 years on the identification and deterioration of artists' materials and on the interpretation of artists’ techniques in both oil and watercolour, mainly for 19th-century British and earlier 20th-century international art, including studies of Turner, Blake, the Pre-Raphaelites, Whistler, Sargent, and Picasso, Picabia and Ernst. She is co- author of The Tate Watercolour Manual (Tate 2014) and author of How Turner Painted: Materials and techniques (Thames and Hudson, October 2019). She has written many papers on the methods of Turner and other artists and has published widely for a range of audiences as well as editing numerous technical art history, conservation, and heritage science conference proceedings._x000d_
She has been IIC Director of Publications since 2009. She’s been the production editor for all the recent IIC congress preprints, and she acts as subject editor for special issues and of Studies in Conservation. She’s currently honorary professor in the school of culture and creative arts at the University of Glasgow in Scotland._x000d_
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