Base64 Image retrival / display (1 Viewer)

I want to display / print a image stored in linked SQL Server database. The image in question is a signature captured from a html web based sign off form.

The server data is a string (varchar(Max)) of the format
Using Access 2010 I thought I could simply display this in an image control, but apparently not.

Having done some google research , I've looked at stripping the initial data:image/png;base64, and converting the string to hex for display without success. Image manipulation is certainly not a strong point of mine, so am I missing something glaringly obvious in trying to put this on a a report or form? I can upload some samples if anyone think it would help.

not my area of expertise either but looks like you need to use tsql and cast/convert to convert back to an image datatype - see this link as an example http://stackoverflow.com/questions/39757289/convert-text-to-image-data-type

I googled 'sql server convert varchar(max) to image'

I've played around with this for about a day now and drawn a blank (literally ). I think it may be an issue with Access not liking the png format.

In SSRS I can display it by stripping the initial text and using and image box with as the field property.

I'll persevere and report back if I crack it, but looks like I'm going to be refreshing my SSRS skills some time soon...