Devi Ormond received her Master’s degree in Paintings Conservation in 1999 from the University of Northumbria at Newcastle. She then spent two years at the Hamilton Kerr Institute Cambridge, UK and completed several internships both in Museums and private studios in Europe and the US. She worked at the Victoria & Albert Museum and the Kröller-Müller Museum developing a specialism in the conservation and technical examination of 19th Century paintings. At the Van Gogh Museum for seven years, Devi conserved and researched paintings by both Van Gogh as well as his Dutch and French contemporaries. She currently works as an associate conservator of paintings at the J. Paul Getty Museum.