CRAVEN Museum staff are delighted to see the return of recently cleaned and conserved paintings from the Roebuck Collection. The paintings will now be mounted for display in Skipton Town Hall as part of Craven District Council’s National Heritage Lottery Funded refurbishment of Craven Museum. As part of the project, 13 of the works, including by John Bratby, founder of the kitchen sink realism style of the late 1950s, and by Italian 18th century artist, Michele Marieschi, were selected for conservation. The work included surface cleaning, replacement of mounts and re-tensioning the canvas to prepare the canvasses for display. The paintings went to a number of accredited conservators last autumn.