The Restoration Journal

Edvard Munch: Love, Loss and the Scream Within | Elliott Best
Edvard Munch: Love, Loss and the Scream Within | Elliott Best
  Edvard Munch: Love, Loss, and the Scream Within. Introducing the Edvard Munch Collection at Elliott Best Most painters ask you to look. Edvard Munch asks you to feel. A... Read more...
From Brush to Lens to Pixel - How artists have used technology to change the way we see, from the Old Masters to the digital age.
From Brush to Lens to Pixel - How artists have used technology to change the way we see, from the Old Masters to the digital age.
For centuries, painting was one of the most powerful ways to preserve a likeness, document a landscape or show the world as an artist saw it.  Oil paint was particularly... Read more...
The Next Evolution of Self-Expression: Why AI Is Expanding, Not Replacing, Art.
The Next Evolution of Self-Expression: Why AI Is Expanding, Not Replacing, Art.
Every revolutionary medium begins with naysayers and skepticism. Photography didn't destroy painting — it liberated it. Now AI is sparking the same conversation. At Elliott Best, we use digital restoration... Read more...
Through the Gilded Doorway: Life and Love in 1920s Berlin.
Through the Gilded Doorway: Life and Love in 1920s Berlin.
In 1919, Berlin had every reason to fall apart. It had lost the war, lost the Kaiser, lost its savings, and buried a generation of its sons. Instead, it danced.... Read more...
How Gustav Klimt Changed the Way We See Beauty, forever.
How Gustav Klimt Changed the Way We See Beauty, forever.
Vienna, 1900. A city alive with philosophers, composers, and a generation of artists determined to break every rule. At the centre of this cultural revolution stood Gustav Klimt — a... Read more...
Gustav Klimt and the Art of Gold
Gustav Klimt and the Art of Gold
Discover how Gustav Klimt's iconic use of real gold leaf, Byzantine mosaic influence, and Vienna Secession philosophy transformed fine art portraiture and decorative painting in fin-de-siècle Vienna. Explore the goldsmithing... Read more...
Portraiture: Capturing the Human Condition
Portraiture: Capturing the Human Condition
Long after names have faded and families have disappeared into history, a great portrait still invites us to look into another human being's eyes and wonder. Elliott Best's Portrait Collection... Read more...
Learn how we digitally restore great works of art.
Learn how we digitally restore great works of art.
Discover the Elliott Best AI Restoration Signature™ process for digitally restoring historic masterpieces. Learn how we preserve Canaletto's original composition while reconstructing light, color harmony, and atmospheric depth to reveal... Read more...
About Elliott Best
About Elliott Best
Art restored. Art created. Art that lasts. Elliott Best is a Canadian fine art studio with a dual practice: we digitally restore some of history's greatest paintings to the vitality... Read more...
Canaletto: The Art of Capturing a City.
Canaletto: The Art of Capturing a City.
Discover how Canaletto transformed vedute painting into an art form defined by light and precision. From Venice's Grand Tour era to London's Georgian streets, explore the master's journey and why... Read more...
Renaissance tapestry showing Abraham Entertaining the Angels, commissioned by Henry VIII
Portable Walls of Power. When Tapestries Ruled the Renaissance.
Long before paintings dominated palace walls, tapestries were the most powerful visual medium in Europe. From the late Middle Ages through the Renaissance, tapestries were not decorative textiles. They were... Read more...
The Artistry of Vintage Advertising - When Commerce became Culture.
The Artistry of Vintage Advertising - When Commerce became Culture.
Before digital feeds and algorithms, advertising was a genuine art form. The great commercial posters of the late 19th and early 20th centuries weren't merely selling products — they were... Read more...
Steel, Stone & Steam: How Canada’s Grandest Hotels Helped Build a Nation.
Steel, Stone & Steam: How Canada’s Grandest Hotels Helped Build a Nation.
At Elliott Best, we’re inspired by the stories that helped shape Canada. And none was more grand or ambitious than the creation of the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) and its... Read more...