Marianne Webb is an independent conservator and researcher on the west coast of Canada. Previously she was the Decorative Arts Conservator at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto where she developed her keen interest in Asian and western lacquer. Marianne received an honor’s degree in Fine Art from the University of Toronto and a diploma in Art Conservation Techniques from Sir Sanford Fleming College. A founding member of the ICOM-Committee for Conservation - Working Group on Lacquer, she served as its coordinator for 12 years. She received the Samuel H. Kress Publication Fellowship in 1997, awarded by the American Institute of Conservation, to write a manuscript on a conservation subject. The manuscript was published in 2000 as Lacquer: Technology and Conservation. She is writing a second edition to be published by the Getty. In 2014 she was a guest scholar at the Getty Conservation Institute where she carried out research on the aging characteristics and discoloration of Asian lacquer. She continues to collaborate with the GCI to study the physical behavior of Asian lacquer and develop improved methods of treatment.