A year in the making, and my experimental perfume bottle Femina is finished! I so love objects that can only have been made a certain way, and this piece definitely falls into that category. Begun as two halves that were hydraulic die formed, I created all detail by hand via Eastern repoussé. As with everything…
“I’ve been so fortunate in the things that I’ve learned from really amazing people, and I want to be able to honor their generosity in teaching me by also keeping the chain going basically […] I don’t want anything in that to be a full stop and a mystery and a ‘Well, we can’t ask…
Who’s the dream client, you ask? I’ll tell you all about her, but first a word from our sponsor (me!) about genie bottles, and hinged boxes, and lockets (oh, my!)… Rauni Higson, MBE and I are teaming up to co-teach a very special course on how to combine Eastern repoussé with silhouette dies in a…
I’m super excited, and quite chuffed, to share that my monograph Radiant Echoes: The Metal Mastery of Victoria Lansford received a fabulous review from Ariana Bishop in the most recent issue of ADORNMENT, THE MAGAZINE OF JEWELRY & RELATED ARTS™. “Radiant Echoes: The Metal Mastery of Victoria Lansford offers a thoughtful chronicle of an artist who…
If you’ve ever taken a beginning figure drawing course, odds are the instructor had you do a blind contour drawing in which you look at the person you wish to draw (or in a mirror) and not at all at your paper. You’re also not allowed to lift the pen or pencil off the page….
“Too much of a good thing is wonderful” – Mae West Coco Chanel got it wrong when she suggested women should go for the ‘less is more’ approach. Watch a scene of a woman getting ready for an evening in any costume drama or classic movie, and one of the defining things she’ll put on…
Thanks to everyone who sent well wishes for my Retreat Week in June! I’m happy to report that I managed mostly to stick to creative work and not to doomscroll news. Each one of these Retreat Weeks I learn more about what I need to support myself in the studio. You might think after 36…
