Morwenna Blewett read the history of art at the Courtauld Institute of Art, completing her degree in 2000. She also trained as a paintings conservator at the Department of Conservation and Technology at the Courtauld Institute of Art in 2003. She held an Andrew. W Mellon Fellowship in paintings conservation at Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts from 2004-2006, and from 2006-2007, she held the paintings conservation fellowship at the Straus Center for Conservation, Harvard University. After working as a paintings conservator at the National Galleries of Scotland she took up the post of paintings conservator at the Cambridge University-affiliated Ebury street studio of the Hamilton Kerr Institute. She holds an LLB in Law (First Class Honours , Bond Dickinson Roll of Honour for Outstanding Performance, 2015) with a published thesis focussing on criminal damage to cultural property. She also holds a Graduate Diploma in Law (CPE) (2010), and also a Postgraduate Diploma in Art Profession Law and Ethics (2008) She is a paintings conservator at the National Gallery, London. She is also a PhD candidate at the Pears Institute for the Study of Anti-Semitism at Birkbeck, University of London, examining the role of conservation professionals in the National Socialist regime.