The Restoration Man

George Clarke revisits Keith and Sheena McIntyre who struggled through terrible weather conditions, and a challenge to integrate with the local community, in order to restore a stunning but isolated Telford Church. Using inheritance from his late father, artist Keith McIntyre and his wife Sheena bought this Grade B listed, Thomas Telford designed church in the remote island of Berneray in the Outer Hebrides. Keith and Sheena dream of converting the church into a holiday home and artist’s studio where they can bring their art students and musician friends to be inspired by the amazing light and rugged, desolate landscape. They face extreme weather conditions and keeping the neighbors onside, whilst trying to manage the build from 400 miles way. A year later George Clarke returns to find out if they’ve managed to transform the Church into a working artist’s studio, what life is like in the new community, and to see if they’ve been successful in winning a prestigious Royal Institute of Architects award.