Voces del Prado

The Creation of a Young Workshop

Rafael Alonso Alonso, Restorer, 1978-2016

Don Alfonso Emilio Pérez Sánchez asked me to bring in another fellow restorer who I could vouch for. So that’s when Alfredo Piñeiro came. The Dávila sisters, Enrique Quintana, Clara Quintanilla, Almudena Sánchez and Elisa Mora also came at that time. And, successively, a group of restorers was created that had new ideas and applied a series of more uniform and up-to-date criteria. Because when I arrived at the Restoration Workshop, there were only two painting restorers, who, incidentally, never talked to each other: Antonio Fernández Sevilla and Javier Carrión. There was no real workshop as such; we gradually created it by working together. In this respect, we all contributed our knowledge and know-how with considerable enthusiasm, and we developed together, thus shaping the personality of our workshop.