HI, I’M KRISSY, HERE IS SOME STUFF ABOUT ME…

I’m a Photographic Restoration Artist and a Digital & Fine Artist. I love art, photography, my family, and my dog, which makes this my perfect profession. I also love Netflix, which works in well considering the hours I spend at my computer.

I started my work life in a major Photographic Studio in Brisbane, where I was trained in traditional photo restoration techniques by the only person in Australia to have won awards from the AIPP (Australian Institute of Professional Photography) for Photo Restoration. So that was awesome.

Dyes, oils, tiny paint brushes, oil pencils, airbrushes, thinners, negatives, and darkroom printing were my tools back 40 years ago; now, my tools are a drawing tablet and computer programs. You still have to know how to reconstruct a face that cockroaches have eaten off though, so that hasn’t changed.                                                           

While working for super-talented photographers and in the photographic industry, I developed a lot of cool skills. Photography (no brainer), how to create mood and visual impact, an eye for colour, composition, highlights, and shadows. And editing…. cropping, enhancing, colour balance and manipulation, and presentation.

Supersonic attention to detail is an amazing power I have. Tiny details are the difference between good and brilliant. It is being able to look at a picture that isn’t quite right and isolate and align all of the elements to a beautiful balance comes in handy with most artistic pursuits.

I can also be pretty creative. I do tend to think outside of all sorts of boxes and experiment with strange perspectives and concepts. It also helps me to come up with inventive ways of saving almost unsavable photos. For example, if there’s not enough detail left to recreate the damaged faces, let's use different sorts of art and manipulation and turn it into an artwork that you will still have an emotional connection to.

IF YOU’RE NOT SICK OF ME YET, HERE IS SOME OTHER STUFF I’VE DONE…

I was awarded a $3,500 grant to develop and carry out a large-scale week-long art program for 60 to 80 at-risk kids. It was an absolutely amazing experience, as well as completely devastatingly exhausting. 

“Create a vision of our fantasy-selves, (person or creature), with our own special power or skill to help create a happy and harmonious community.

Draw and describe our individual identities, then create sculptured figures. 

Work together to paint a large canvas to portray a beautiful place to live, and attach the figures to the canvas to create our 3-dimensional vision…….The project encompasses team building, peer support and community awareness. 

It also aims to give the children a sense of self-awareness and individuality (and their power to reinvent themselves), while being a helpful and productive part of a community.”


I entered several groupart exhibitions, sold multiple works, and won prizes, including the Packers Prize, People's Choice, Best Abstract, and Simpson Family Award.

  • ‘Embodiment’ mixed media  

  • ‘Transcendence’ mixed media

  • ‘Recognition’ mixed media

Custom Art and Picture Framing design and layouts. I did this for around 10 years, as well as restoration, as well as repairs and touch-ups to original artworks and documents. I loved working out the balance between the customer's tastes and what best enhanced the artwork.

I have Photographed weddings, portraits and pretty scenery stuff, but I tend to be more into dead flowers, tree bark and rusty things. People buy them too. Go figure.

Fine art, and 3D art, most mediums except oils because…I don’t know…you’ve got to stop somewhere?? I’ve done a lot of Pets and People, but my big love is abstract, symbolism, spiritual, and earthy kinds of stuff.

  • ‘Discovering Power’ Pastel Fine Art

  • ‘My Dad’ Pastel Fine Art

  • ‘Shylo’ Pastel Fine Art

  • ‘Precipice’ Pastel Fine Art

  • ‘Ian’ Pastel Fine Art

  • ‘Peaceitude’ Pastel Fine Art

  • ‘Waiting’ Pen & Ink Fine Art

  • Alcohol Ink

  • Mixed Media

  • Mixed Media

Digital art is a combined create-fest involving photography, fine art, and Photoshop. There are limitless possibilities, heaps of fun, and a fair few very strange insights.

  • Photography & Digital Art  

  • ‘Beneath the Stone’ Photography & Digital Art

  • Photography & Digital Art

  • ‘Goth Budgie’ Photography, Fine Art & Digital Art

  • ‘Colosseum’ Photography & Digital Art

I restored approximately 100 badly water damaged, mould affected photos from the body of work of model Briaan Kearney, a well known model whose career spanned the 60s and 70s.

“…..Rescuing pieces of the past was important to me – and Ms Clark has repaired and preserved precious pieces of the early work of various leading internationally recognised Australian photographers from the 1960s and 1970s work that was inadvertently damaged by flooding rain a Sydney winter some 40 years ago…..I believed the work of the photographers needed to be recognised and remembered…..a book highlighting their amazing art was the way to go and this was able to be done through Ms Clark’s restoration of part of my archive…..” Briaan Kearney

I also lived and worked at The Birdsville Hotel for 6 years (Google it, it’s awesome), which has nothing to do with Photo Restoration but is a REALLY COOL thing to have done, and I love bragging about it. (oh…I did heaps of art projects with 10 to 20 kids between 3 and 5 years old at the Birdsville school as well…there you go… brag justified)

OTHER STUFF…

Technological advances have made digital retouching capabilities accessible to everyone, but detailed, authentic photo restoration is still an art that relies on the skill of the artist. And there is much more involved in good quality restoration than skilled artwork. Experience, judgement, and research skills, as well as the utmost care and respect, are essential.    

Over the years, I have rescued every type of photo and document from every kind of damage, from just making a digital copy to keep the image safe, to bringing back nightmare-level damaged images.

It’s important to preserve our photographic history.

In society today, where we easily take constant photos of people, scenery, events, pets and ourselves making duck faces, we forget that just 3 or 4 generations ago, the average person would only have had one formal photo taken on important occasions. 

When you also consider the amount of those photos that have been damaged or lost over time, the preservation of what is left is historically and emotionally important for future generations, and society in general.

There will be a time when it is too late to save them, they will be gone forever, and future generations will never have that connection to their past or ancestors. Even if you’re not interested in your family history, your future generations may be.

I love that I am able to repair and preserve a precious piece of family history that someone thought was beyond saving and lost forever.                                                         

I absolutely, honestly care about rescuing the stuff that people love, and if I can make you cry with happiness….even better.

Check on any photos you have stored to make sure that they are still ok, and ask your family to do the same.

Too many times, they have been found too late, so make sure you don’t lose them forever.

Please let me know if I can help.