About
Victoria Lansford is an artist and educator who combines historical metalsmithing and illumination processes with cutting edge technology to create contemporary interpretations of centuries-old craft forms. With a creative career spanning over 30 years, her genre-busting and award-winning art explores feminine power and ranges in scale from intricate art jewelry and miniatures to architectural metalwork.
Exhibitions and publications of Victoria’s artwork include the Museum of Contemporary Craft, Rochester Institute of Technology, the Georgia Museum, the Lark 500 series, Metalsmith and Jewelry Artist magazines, Home and Garden Television, and the monograph Radiant Echoes: The Metal Mastery of Victoria Lansford. Recent large-scale commissions include a copper room divider and Eastern repousse doors for one of the world’s largest superyachts and the digital/hardbound book Giving Voice, which she wrote, animated, and illustrated.
She has taught and mentored thousands of metalsmiths around the globe through her online school, sold-out workshops, instructional series Metal Techniques of Bronze Age Masters, and iPhoneTM app iMakeJewelry. As a result, she has created a renaissance for metal techniques, including Russian filigree, granulation, and Eastern repoussé. She is currently working to research the dissemination of metalsmithing techniques through ancient and Medieval cultures.
Victoria lives in Atlanta, GA with her husband Chris, son Skyler, and two Shelties Boudica and Elizabeth.
Best known for her mastery of ancient techniques like Eastern repoussé, Russian filigree, and granulation, Lansford doesn’t simply replicate history—she reimagines it, coaxing metal into forms that are at once technically rigorous and unmistakably her own.
Ariana Bishop, “RADIANT ECHOES: THE METAL MASTERY OF VICTORIA LANSFORD,” ADORNMENT, THE MAGAZINE OF JEWELRY & RELATED ARTS™, VOLUME 14 NO. 2, AUGUST 2025, PAGE 58
Selected publicity and publications
Selected Institutions
Involvement and Education
What Others Say
“Victoria, the monograph Radiant Echoes is a polished, gleaming box, perfectly displaying your exquisite artwork.”
Mary-Alice Pomputius
“You have been an inspiration for quite some time – when I found myself entranced by filigree work, you were the one artist whose work I came to admire as much as the ancient pieces I’d try and trace back. Reading what has inspired you and what you’ve grown up around has been so relatable and has been insane to experience after already being so captivated by the essence, energy, and technicalities of just seeing your work.”
McKenna Weinbaum
“You’ve developed a really great method for teaching online! Sometimes when I begin a new Eastern repoussé project, I’m so in the moment that I later forget how I did something. I love the ability to rewatch the exact demo I need when I start a new project. I learn something new every time, which has helped me advance in a short time.”
Judi Schwartz
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SOME VERY RANDOM STUFF ABOUT VICTORIA
Favorite Artists
Leonardo da Vinci, Vincent Van Gogh,
Albrecht Durer, Rene Lalique, Nick Bantock,
Maurice Sendak, Edward Gorey, Charles Schultz,
Jim Henson, Marie Zimmerman, Mary Lee Hu,
Bobbie Crow,
Whoever made Tutankhamun’s mummy mask
Favorite Composers, Musicians/Bands
Beethoven, Mozart, Hildegard von Bingen,
Dave Brubeck, Steely Dan, Ella Fitzgerald,
Miles Davis, Joe Sample, Diana Krall, Yo-Yo Ma,
Fleetwood Mac, Parliament/Funkadelic
Favorite Movies
Rebecca, Vertigo (both Hitchcock),
Women on the Verge of Nervous Breakdown (Almodovar),
The Color Purple (Spielberg), Casablanca (Curtiz),
Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love (Mira Nair),
Muppets from Space (Hill), Top Hat (Sandrich),
Mo’ Better Blues (Lee), The Ritz (Lester),
On a Clear Day You Can See Forever (Mannelli),
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (Gilliam),
Like Water for Chocolate (Arau)
Favorite Books
Where the Wild Things Are (Maurice Sendak),
The Name of the Rose (Umberto Ecco),
The Venetian’s Wife (Nick Bantock),
Murder on the Orient Express (Agatha Christie),
The Doubtful Guest (Edward Gorey),
The Mists of Avalon (Marion Zimmer Bradley)
Favorite Choreographer
Alvin Ailey
Silver gelatin print by Catherine Sternbergh
Some Favorite Spaces on Earth
Valley of the Kings (Egypt), Rivoli Bar, Ritz Hotel (London), Tea & Sympathy (NYC – Miss Marple would duck into this tea shop to get out of the rain.), Pike’s Market (Seattle), Ashmolean Museum (Oxford, UK), The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston)
Michael C. Carlos Museum (Atlanta), The Agyptisches Museum (Berlin – Alas, everything got moved to the Neue Museum), Zoo Station (Berlin, circa 1990 – Not half so cool since they cleaned it up), The Louvre (Paris), Winter Palace hotel (Luxor, Egypt), Old Cataract Hotel (Aswan, Egypt), Atlanta Botanical Gardens, The Fox Theater (Atlanta), Kremer Pigments (NYC – Now NY Pigments. Prepare to fall in love with color.), L. Cornelissen & Son (London – the Ollivander’s Wand Shop of art supply stores)
Shepherd’s London (London, obviously – Paper, paper, and more paper +book binding stuff), Binder’s Art Supply (Atlanta – My local since I was 12, seriously.)
Sennelier (Quai Voltaire, Paris – Open since 1887, not only will you leave with gorgeous stuff, you can’t help but feel the ghosts of your influences.)
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Some Odd Facts
I’m barely 5’2″ but frequently told I “look bigger on TV.” I love nature but hate camping. I can ride a horse a bit but I’m a terrible swimmer. I am highly coordinated but am incapable of skiing (water or snow…just don’t even ask). If you throw a ball (or anything else at me), I will probably duck, for that is what intelligent people do. I am a practical idealist and a practical pacifist and can’t get enough deeply disturbing or convoluted British whodunits in book, radio drama, or TV formats. One of my favorite moments in time was getting to hear Stephen Hawking deliver his paper “The Universe in a Nutshell” in person.
Photo by Stephen Heaton
Despite being highly claustrophobic, I’ve been inside two of the three Pyramids at Giza…needs must. There is no such thing as too much dark chocolate.
And the journey continues…
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