Dust a resin portrait with a soft dry cloth and lift a mark with a damp one. Never use glass cleaner or solvents: they cloud the mirror gloss. Keep the piece out of hours of strong direct sun, which yellows any resin in time. That is the whole routine for a panel, an ornament or a wood slice.
How do I clean a resin panel?
With a soft dry cloth for dust, and a cloth wrung out in plain water for a fingerprint or a mark, followed by the dry one. Nothing else goes near it.
| What | Do this | Not this |
|---|---|---|
| Dust | A soft dry cloth | A rough or gritty cloth |
| A fingerprint or a mark | A damp cloth, then a dry one | Rubbing it dry with a rough cloth |
| Glass cleaner | Never | Any spray cleaner |
| Solvents | Never | Any solvent or spirit |
| Strong direct sun | A wall out of the midday light | Hours of it every day |
The gloss is one clear flood of resin, polished by hand. It is hard and it is deep, but it is also what a solvent attacks first, so the rule is plain water or nothing.
Why no glass cleaner?
Because it clouds the gloss. Glass cleaner and solvents dull the clear surface that gives the piece its depth, and a clouded surface is not something a cloth brings back.
A resin panel is not glass, even though it is polished to look like it. Everything about how it is made is on the materials page, and the short version is that the surface is a cured liquid, not a mineral, and it wants to be treated more gently than a window.
Does sunlight damage resin?
Hours of strong direct sun, every day, yellow any resin in time. Ordinary daylight is what the pieces are made to catch: a panel across the room from a window is exactly where it looks best.
The wall to avoid is the one that takes the midday sun straight on. A hallway, the wall by the stairs, above a sofa or a sideboard that faces the window rather than sitting in it, all keep the gloss clear the longest. The hanging guide goes through where each piece sits.
How do I look after an ornament?
The same way: a soft dry cloth, a damp one for a mark, and no cleaners. The dome is the same clear flood as a panel, and the thin gold rim is fitted around it.
Between seasons, keep the ornament in a box with its chain laid out rather than dropped in loose, since a chain left loose in a box tangles. On the tree it hangs from its own chain, out of the reach of the dog it is a portrait of.
Is a wood slice cared for differently?
Only in one respect: it stands rather than hangs, so it collects dust along the top of the bark edge, and that edge wants the same soft dry cloth as the face.
The bark, the grain and the painted portrait are all sealed under the same clear flood, bark edge and all, so the face is cleaned exactly like a panel. Keep it on its easel on a shelf or a mantel out of the strong sun, and it needs nothing more.
Questions this leaves
Can I hang a resin panel in a bathroom or a kitchen?
The care rules are about solvents and hours of direct sun, not about damp: a damp cloth is how the piece is cleaned. Keep it off the wall above a hob and away from spray cleaners, and if a particular room worries you, write to us before you hang it there.
What if the gloss gets scratched?
Write to us and describe it, with a photograph if you can. Do not try a polish or a solvent on it, which clouds the surface around the scratch. We will tell you plainly what, if anything, can be done about it.
Does glitter or gold leaf fade?
The glitter and the gold leaf are sealed inside the piece, under the portrait and under the clear flood, so nothing touches them and nothing wears them. What can change over years is the resin itself if it sits in hours of strong direct sun, which is why the rule about the wall matters.
