Lydia Martin is a contemporary jeweler living, working, and teaching in Little Rock, AR. Lydia received an MFA from SUNY New Paltz in 2017 and a BFA from Rochester Institute of Technology. She has exhibited both nationally and internationally and is represented by Jewelers’ Werk Galerie.

Lydia’s work, built upon the foundations of technical skill, is an exploration of material skill, form, surface, line, and movement. Through the use of traditional metalsmithing techniques, she creates pieces that become an investigation of intentions and consequences. Forms become suspended in motion creating new orientations. Shifting boundaries from the studio to the body, the form that was once only suspended in motion is now suspended in wearing.