Lydia Asscher is a metalsmith and artist. She creates artworks inspired by the animate forces in nature. They take the form sensory portals to the other world, the world of dreams and memories.

Metal calls to Lydia as a medium because of the way it plays with light. The works in themselves become a way to capture light and move with it, rather than being flat renderings of the world.

Lydia's work also often features Chasing and Repoussé, a Bronze Age metalworking technique, which enables Lydia to translate three dimensional imagery to metal by hand.

She describes her process as an act of dissolving from one’s own self into a landscape of feeling. Not unlike wading barefoot into a stream, she trusts her instincts to find the way when working on a new idea.

Every piece is a thread in a story, linked to dreaming, memory and the call of wilder places. They are made to find custodians that also seek solace in the crunch of chalk under foot and the honey light that filters through beech leaves.

Lydia studied at Brighton Metropolitan College in 2018, where she achieved a distinction in her Level 3 Art and Design Foundation Diploma.

Since her studies, Lydia has worked as an assistant to skilled blacksmith Oliver Russell and now commits fully to her own practice.

Lydia hopes to transmit mythologies both new and old through contemporary eyes, whilst keeping an ancient craft in motion.

Lydia has taught a range of workshops at Makers Barn and Butser Ancient Farm. She has also sold and exhibited work at Makers Barn, Medicine Festival, and Oxmarket Contemporary Gallery. Her work has also been featured in House and Garden Magazine and Tatler Magazine.