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Radiant Echoes: The Metal Mastery of Victoria Lansford showcases the artist’s journey through over three decades of ground-breaking applications of historical metalsmithing techniques. This retrospective publication comprehensively not only explores Lansford’s endless ability with complex metalsmithing techniques including filigree, Eastern repoussé, and granulation, but also speaks to how her skill and vision marry in the creation of objects that filters tradition through a contemporary lens. Simultaneously an artist, alchemist, and shaman, Lansford brings together the familiar with the unexpected through creative work that rethinks the millennia-old practice of turning raw materials into precious objects.
The book features over 150 images of art jewelry, art objects, and large-scale metalwork drawn from across Lansford’s career as well as a comprehensive glossary of her techniques used, offering a unique opportunity for readers to explore the evolution of Lansford’s creativity and craftsmanship. Radiant Echoes will make a fantastic addition to the library of anyone who loves jewelry, sculpture, metalsmithing, or simply contemplating beautiful objects.
Radiant Echoes includes new essays by curators, scholars, and artists including Kate Bonansinga, Cynthia Eid, Rauni Higson, Elyse Zorn Karlin, Victoria Lansford, and Jane Milosch, with consulting editor Emily Zilber.
Full color, casebound, 186 pages
ISBN 978-0-9821833-6-6
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$195.00
What do you do when you have too many books? Call in the scholarly fairy-mice to catalogue those titles and conserve those rare manuscripts in minutes. They don’t even need a ladder to reach the tallest shelves! These tireless, flying librarians are a wealth of knowledge and can also help with research projects and indexing.
This signed, archival, 8” x 10” archival, artist print is hand embellished to highlight the original gold gilding and meticulously painted layers of metallics in the wings and plasterwork walls.
Whether you’re a scholar a simply a book lover, let the librarian fairy-mice locate just the right enchanted book for you and bring magic to your bookshelf now.
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Agatha loves to form beautiful curves and spirals from silver wire, and because she’s a fairy-mouse, they come out perfect every time. Being miniature herself, she relishes in giving attention to tiny, intricate shapes. The biggest thrill, however, comes when she’s able to see her finished filigree creations collected and worn by the most stylish fairy-mice.
This signed, archival, 8” x 10” artist print is hand embellished to highlight the original gold gilding and meticulously painted layers of metallics.
Please note: Purchase of this print does not guarantee your metalwork will be completed for you by fairies, but it will bring a sparkle and a smile to your studio.
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What’s more fun than an evening at the theater? Commemorate the opening night of Scheherazade with an artist print, capturing the wonder of flying ballerinas (with no guide wires!). This fairy-mouse-inclusive, ballet production, based on One Thousand and One Nights, features stunning costumes, a night sky cityscape, and silk carpet all rendered in miniature by Victoria as the perfect setting for this classic tale.
This signed, archival, 8” x 10” archival, artist print is hand embellished to highlight the original gold gilding and meticulously painted layers of metallics. Bring a little of their romance into your life, and watch the magic fly!
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Cecilia enjoys contemplating the color shifts of the stars as she gazes through her mouse-sized telescope.
This signed, 8” x 10” archival, artist print is hand embellished to highlight the original gold gilding and meticulously painted layers of metallics. Please note: Purchase of this print does not guarantee the finding of new planets by fairies, but it will bring a sparkle and a smile to your home.
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Tap, tap, tap went Beatrix’s chasing hammer on her Eastern Repousse Line Tool as it glided around the recessed curves she had designed. Beatrix realized that chasing the fine details on the relief of repoussé metal was even more fun that watching the cat chase its tail and far safer than risking the cat chasing her.
This signed, archival, 8” x 10” artist print is hand embellished to highlight the original gold gilding and meticulously painted layers of metallics. Please note: Purchase of this print does not guarantee your metalwork will be completed for you by fairies, but it will bring a sparkle and a smile to your studio.
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Heather began raising this vessel from a flat disc of copper sheet to the nearly full height you now see. She began sinking the disc over her tiny anvil to forge the cup shape and has progressed to bringing in the top portion by angle raising the vessel over a steel T-stake (just like non-winged humans do). Her left paw is becoming a little sore from the vibration, but with good technique and persistence, she hopes to move onto the planishing stage to remove the deeper hammer marks very soon.
This signed, 8” x 10” archival, artist print is hand embellished to highlight the original gold gilding and meticulously painted layers of metallics. Please note: Purchase of this print does not guarantee your metalwork will be completed for you by fairies, but it will bring a sparkle and a smile to your studio.
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$195.00
Running low on loaves of bread and jugs of wine? For a modest delivery charge the Express de la Souris (Mouse Express) can deliver them straight to your door! Yes, these special fairy-mice do have their own wings, but flying their magic dirigible allows them to deliver far more than their little paws can carry, including great wheels of cheese. Plan your next picnic or evening in with your favorite beings, winged or otherwise, and order now!
This signed, archival, 8” x 10” archival, artist print is hand embellished to highlight the original gold gilding and meticulously painted layers of metallics. Please note: Delivery of this print will be by USPS or DHL (not an actual mouse flown dirigible).
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Medieval style miniature portrait of two male lions at Zoo Atlanta.
Available as an original 5 x 5 in (10 x 10 x 10 in, framed at $2800) or as a limited edition, numbered, archival print (5 x 5 in printed on slightly larger paper at $65). The original is painted and illuminated (gilded) in watercolor, ink, gouache, and 24k gold leaf on real animal vellum.
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Medieval style miniature portrait of a poisonous frog at the Atlanta Botanical Gardens
Ink, water color, gouache, 24k gold, calfskin vellum
Also available as a giclee print for $55
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There is no other color so rich as the blue of a male peacock’s neck and throat. It is strangely difficult to replicate in pigments or dyes because it changes with the angle of light, making it elusive to capture in flat color. It is my most favorite color.
Available as an original 5″ x 7″ (11″x13″ framed) painting ($2200) or as a limited edition, numbered and signed, 5″x7″, archival print ($65). The original is painted and illuminated (gilded) in watercolor, ink, gouache, and 23k gold leaf on real animal vellum.
Watercolor, ink, gouache, 24k gold leaf on animal skin vellum
The limited edition, numbered, archival (giclee) print has been painstakingly photographed to capture the brilliance of the colors and metallics as a print of superior longevity on cotton rag paper.
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$175.00
Available as a giclee print
Original – Illumination in 24k gold and watercolor on paper, (original not for sale)
8.5 x 11
The limited edition, numbered, archival (giclee) print has been painstakingly created to capture the brilliance of the colors and metallics as a print of superior longevity on cotton rag paper.
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$155.00
The original painting from Giving Voice is painted and illuminated (gilded) in watercolor, ink, gouache, and 23k gold leaf on hot press watercolor paper.
Available as a limited edition, numbered, archival print (7″ x 19″ on matte paper).
The limited edition, numbered, and signed archival (giclee) print has been painstakingly created to capture the brilliance of the colors and metallics as a print of superior longevity.
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$155.00
The original painting from Giving Voice is painted and illuminated (gilded) in watercolor, ink, gouache, and 23k gold leaf on hot press watercolor paper.
Available as a limited edition, numbered, archival print (7″ x 19″ printed on 13″ x 19″ matte paper).
The limited edition, numbered, and signed archival (giclee) print has been painstakingly created to capture the brilliance of the colors and metallics as a print of superior longevity.
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$155.00
The original painting from Giving Voice is painted and illuminated (gilded) in watercolor, ink, gouache, and 23k gold leaf on hot press watercolor paper.
Available as a limited edition, numbered, archival print (7″ x 19″ printed on 13″ x 19″ matte paper).
The limited edition, numbered, and signed archival (giclee) print has been painstakingly created to capture the brilliance of the colors and metallics as a print of superior longevity.
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$65.00
There is no other color so rich as the blue of a male peacock’s neck and throat. It is strangely difficult to replicate in pigments or dyes because it changes with the angle of light, making it elusive to capture in flat color. It is my most favorite color.
Available as an original 5″ x 7″ (11″x13″ framed) painting ($2200) or as a limited edition, numbered and signed, 5″x7″, archival print ($65). The original is painted and illuminated (gilded) in watercolor, ink, gouache, and 23k gold leaf on real animal vellum.
Watercolor, ink, gouache, 24k gold leaf on animal skin vellum
The limited edition, numbered, archival (giclee) print has been painstakingly photographed to capture the brilliance of the colors and metallics as a print of superior longevity.
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$55.00
Medieval style miniature portrait of a North American porcupine at the San Diego Zoo. He is known for preferring to sit upright in this position with his paws braced against his enclosure.
Ink, water color, gouache, 24k gold, calfskin vellum
Available as an archival print (4″ x 6″ printed on slightly larger paper at $55). The limited edition archival (giclee) print has been painstakingly created to capture the brilliance of the colors and metallics as a print of superior longevity on cotton rag paper.
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$55.00
Medieval style miniature portrait of a poisonous frog at the Atlanta Botanical Gardens
Available as a limited edition, numbered and signed, archival print (4.5″ x 4.5″ printed on slightly larger paper). The original is painted and illuminated (gilded) in watercolor, ink, gouache, and 24k gold leaf on real animal vellum.
The limited edition, numbered, archival (giclee) print has been painstakingly created to capture the brilliance of the colors and metallics as a print of superior longevity on cotton rag paper.
This is one of my few miniatures in which the subject is depicted at close to life size. Even my butterflies are smaller than their real counterparts. This tiny frog is part of a permanent exhibit of poisonous frogs that I visit on my frequent trips to ABG’s Fuqua Conservatory. His intensely vivid greens were a delightful challenge to create, as was the moss. The surrounding leaves, like in the rest of my miniatures, contrast the realism of the animal with the fanciful nature of the foliage. In this case, they are more realistically inspired by the aspidistra leaves surrounding my backyard fishpond with its own, much larger frogs. This juxtaposition of reality and imagination allows me to illuminate marvelous creatures in the most unexpected places!
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Medieval style miniature portrait of two male lions at Zoo Atlanta.
I’ve long been obsessed with the lions that live only a few blocks from my home and studio. Back in the early 2000’s, if the wind was just right, when the leaves were off the trees, I could hear one lion’s frequent roaring from my own backyard. It was a most extroverted lion! Sadly, he passed of old age, and the shifts in our urban canopy no longer let the sounds of the others carry this far.
These lions are based on a photograph my son Skyler took on our visit in the spring of 2018. From their vantage point of their stacked boulders, the majestic males alternate between ignoring their visitors and briefly, grudgingly acknowledging us with a kind of mildly irritated noblesse oblige.
Available as a limited edition, numbered and signed, archival print (5 x 5 in printed on slightly larger paper). The original is painted and illuminated (gilded) in watercolor, ink, gouache, and 24k gold leaf on real animal vellum.
The limited edition, numbered, archival (giclee) print has been painstakingly created to capture the brilliance of the colors and metallics as a print of superior longevity on cotton rag paper.
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$3,200.00
Medieval style illumination on vellum
Ink, water color, gouache, 24k gold, calfskin vellum, gold foil paper, silk thread
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$65.00
Available as a limited edition, numbered, archival print (4″ x 6″ printed on slightly larger paper at $65). The original is painted and illuminated (gilded) in watercolor, ink, gouache, and 24k gold leaf on real animal vellum.
The limited edition, numbered, archival (giclee) print has been painstakingly created to capture the brilliance of the colors and metallics as a print of superior longevity on cotton rag paper.
Harriet is a Medieval style miniature of a beautiful, Masai giraffe with whom I spent some time at Sand Diego Zoo a few years ago. She graciously posed for a number of photos on which I based the portrait. Getting her unique and characteristic spots correct was about as time consuming as all the filigree in the three pairs of earrings combined. Fortunately, I could work on her as I traveled and taught around the planet in 2017 and 201. As giraffes go, she was exceptionally portable.
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$39.99
“Giving Voice arrives like the fall of cool rain in the desert…a sweet and gentle relief.”
– Nick Bantock, multi-best-selling creator of the Griffin & Sabine trilogies
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“Giving Voice arrives like the fall of cool rain in the desert…a sweet and gentle relief.”
– Nick Bantock, multi-best-selling creator of the Griffin & Sabine trilogies
$19.99 
Print edition available
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This miniature painting is based on a photograph I took of a very serious meerkat on sentry duty at Zoo Atlanta. She was quite suspicious of the humans circling her home. For her portrait, I set her within a Medieval style, acanthus leaf, foliate frame, painted with watercolor and accented by 23k gold gilding and inked filigree on animal skin vellum. While one might not expect a Medieval meerkat, it was quite common during the Middle Ages and Renaissance for all types of animals, real or imagined, to appear woven within such page borders of hand illuminated manuscript books. I decided this precious and dignified, yet whimsical creature warranted her very own fairy tale setting.
This limited edition archival (giclee) print is hand-embellished, signed, and numbered.
4 x 6 inch print (same size as original) on 5 x 7 cotton rag paper
This giclee print has been painstakingly created to capture the transparency of the colors and the brilliance of the metallics as a print of superior longevity.
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$55.00
The tiny chickadee is portrayed in miniature majesty, nesting within a Medieval style, acanthus leaf foliate, painted with watercolor and accented by 23k gold gilding and inked filigree on animal skin vellum.
This limited edition archival (giclee) print is hand-embellished, signed, and numbered.
4.75 x 4.75 inch print (same size as original) on 5 x 7 cotton rag paper
This giclee print has been painstakingly created to capture the transparency of the colors and the brilliance of the metallics as a print of superior longevity.
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Eastern repousse bound, one of a kind, long stitch book, hand lettered and mixed media over archivally printed photo montages of original collages
Copper sheet, washi and hot press watercolor papers, inks, watercolor, gouache, linen thread
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Eastern repousse front cover of a one of a kind, long stitch book with calligraphic hand lettering over a giclee printed montage of original collages, and an acid etched copper back cover Copper sheet, handmade and photo papers, Japanese stick inks, gouache text: William Shakespeare, Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act V, Scene i, lines 2-22
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$6,700.00
Accordion book with gilding and hand lettering on brazilwood dyed calfskin vellum with acid etched copper covers
Copper, 23k gold leaf, Finetec gouache, brazil wood dyed calfskin vellum with archival print of original graphite drawing
