Trustees

Hugh Belsey MBE – Chair of The Emery Walker Trust

Hugh is a curator, writer and lecturer. From 1981 to 2004 he was Curator of Gainsborough’s House, the artist’s birthplace museum in Sudbury, Suffolk where he established the collection and transformed the museum. Since he left the museum he has worked in a freelance capacity writing, reviewing, curating exhibitions and lecturing. Every year he gives a series of lectures in a variety of venues in Suffolk and Essex and in 2019 his comprehensive catalogue raisonné, Thomas Gainsborough: The Portraits, Fancy Pictures and Copies after Old Masters was published to great acclaim. He has served as both Chairman and Treasurer
of The Constable Trust.

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Andrew Eyres CGMA– Treasurer of The Emery Walker Trust

A qualified accountant, Andrew has worked in a range of senior leadership roles within the NHS in south London for over 20 years, including as Chief Executive and Director of Finance.  Andrew has extensive experience of working with NHS Boards, a reputation for strong financial management and strategy development, building and sustaining partnerships and good governance.  Andrew has a Master’s Degree in History from the University of Edinburgh.

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Elena Lewendon – Curator, historian and museum development specialist 

Formerly an archaeologist specialising in site management, Elena has worked in the museum sector for over a decade focusing on museum development, audience consultation, fundraising and improving visitor experience. As well as leading the Curatorial team at the London Fire Brigade Museum, Elena has been a Trustee for The Apsley Paper Trail Trust since 2012, providing strategic support to an NLHF funded working historic paper mill. Elena has a degree in Classics and Archaeology from The University of Warwick and an MA in Museum Studies from University College London.

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Max Donnelly FSA

Max is Curator of Nineteenth-Century Furniture at the V&A, where he is a member of the Curatorial Concept Team planning new international Nineteenth-Century Galleries. He has contributed to two V&A publications: C.F.A. Voysey: Arts and Crafts Designer (2016) and The Story of Scottish Design (2018). Max writes for journals including The Burlington Magazine and has lectured in the UK, Europe, North America and China. He is a member of the Decorative Arts Society Committee.

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Tessa Wild – Independent curator and writer

Tessa is Co-Director of the Attingham Trust Summer School and an independent curator.  She previously worked for the Georgian Group and the National Trust, where she was a curator for 18 years.  During this time, she curated Red House in Bexleyheath and Standen in Sussex amongst a portfolio of artists' and writers' houses in London and country houses in Oxfordshire, Sussex and East Anglia.  She is the author of William Morris & His Palace of Art, (Philip Wilson, 2018) and The Dog, (Chatsworth House Trust, 2019).  She is also a member of the British and Irish Furniture Makers Online (BIFMO) Outreach and Education Committee.​

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Martin Levy - Furniture and Art Dealer and Specialist

Martin Levy FSA is a London-based dealer in furniture and works of art.  He has published extensively on nineteenth-century patronage, designers and manufacturers.  He is a Trustee of the Oliver Ford Trust (1997-present) and the Bard Graduate Center, New York (2017-present).  His other roles include membership of the Spoliation Advisory Panel (2000-present), Chairman of the Decorative Arts Society (2017-present), Chairman of the Kelmscott Campaign Group (2017-present) and Board Member, Gilbert Trust for the Arts (2019-present).  He served on the Reviewing Committee on the Export of Works of Art (1997-2007) and was Treasurer of Furniture History Society (2002-13).

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Karen Butti - Conservation Architect

Karen Butti is a conservation accredited architect and partner at specialist historic buildings practice Thomas Ford and Partners. She was the architect for the works to 7 Hammersmith Terrace as part of Hammersmith Arts and Crafts project. Her master’s and postgraduate study subjects were both on Arts and Crafts buildings in London and this has been followed by architectural commissions to a number of them. As well as providing advice on building matters, she is also the representative of the Art Workers’ Guild to the Trust.

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Di Coia - Marketing, Advertising, Sponsorship Professional

Di Coia is a Marketing, Advertising and Sponsorship specialist. She is based in West London and holds a BA in Psychology.  She worked in the advertising, marketing and sponsorship industry for 28 years and specialised in “Partnership Marketing”
Since retiring 6 years ago Di has been a guide at Emery Walker House and has also done Volunteer work at The Design Museum.
Di is a member of The Bedford Park Society and the Chiswick Arts Society and was previously a Trustee for the Cancer Counselling Trust. 

 

Simon Greenley - Commercial law

Simon Greenley was a commercial litigation partner in city law firm Reynolds Porter Chamberlain LLP from 1984 until 2018. Simon represented the Lloyds Insurance market and global insurance underwriters in London, the US and Switzerland in large scale insurance and reinsurance disputes; also specialising in professional liability defence for banks, capital markets professionals, directors and officers of quoted companies, trustees and a range of UK professional service providers. Simon served as a trustee for a charity whose objective was to break the cycle of children's recruitment into East End gangs and currently serves as a trustee for charity which combats homelessness. Simon joined the Emery Walker Trust in July 2023, where he hopes that his legal background will help to promote and protect the Trust's commercial interests.

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Catherine Daunt - Curator  

Catherine Daunt is Curator of Modern and Contemporary Prints at the British Museum. Her recentexhibitions and publications include Picasso: printmaker (2024), Contemporary collecting: David Hockney to Cornelia Parker (2024), Art on Paper since 1960 (2022), Living with art: the Alexander Walker collection (2020) and The American Dream: pop to the present (2017). She previously worked as Assistant Curator at the National Portrait Gallery, London, and holds a PhD from the University ofSussex.

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Tim Cunliffe –Stained glass artist and educator

Tim has been practising stained glass for over thirty years and is committed to passing on the tradition of the craft through teaching adults. He has been a tutor for Hammersmith & Fulham Adult Learning & Skills Service based at the nearby Macbeth Centre, since 2005. He regularly collaborates with the William Morris Society to exhibit students’ art and craft at Kelmscott House. He has run workshops at the Victoria & Albert Museum and the British Museum. Tim studied stained glass at Central Saint Martin’s School of Art where he was awarded the Stained Glass Fellowship in 1990. Apart from stained glass, Tim also produces sculpted reliefs. The British Museum acquired one of his bronze art medals in 2002.

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