See my recent artwork in 2 exhibitions that open very soon! Contemporary Studio Jewelry in Georgia I’ll be at the opening on November 13 at 5:00 EST in Statesboro and would love to connect with you! And The Seattle Metals Guild Biennial Exhibition Alas, one trip to Seattle this fall was all I could swing,…
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…
