Andiy Ransom lives on the tall-grass prairie of Douglas County, Kansas, where the wind teaches patience and the land remembers. She is a mother, and a steadfast friend to children and animals. Her best friend is a horse.

Her work is shaped by ancestral roots in Lithuania, Poland, and Eastern Europe, and by a lifelong communion with the natural world. A student of plant medicine, Andiy approaches making as a devotional act. One of listening, reciprocity, and respect for cycles older than language.

Once a carpenter, she spent years in physical labor, learning the intelligence of the hand and the quiet discipline of building. A recent diagnosis of multiple, life-altering forms of arthritis redirected her path, not away from making, but inward. Returning to full-time studio practice became an act of preservation and prayer: tending the body as sacred ground, cultivating the unseen gardens of spirit.

From 2015 to 2018, Andiy created a body of work under the name Spell of the Meadow, forged through traditional silversmithing techniques. Today, she works primarily in lost-wax casting and contemporary jewelry fabrication, self-taught and intuitively led. Her studio practice moves fluidly between metal, paint, and text. Each medium informing the next, each gesture a form of witness.

Her jewelry and metalwork honor animals, land, and the quiet authority of organic form. Surfaces are textured, imperfect, alive. Working in bronze allows the work to remain both enduring and accessible. Objects meant to be worn, held, and lived with. Each piece is singular, with custom works created by commission. These pieces are available exclusively through this site or in person at select trunk shows.

Her paintings are abstract works in mixed media, fields of color that function as prayer rather than representation. They trace an ongoing relationship with God through hue, movement, and restraint, inviting contemplation over conclusion.

Andiy is currently completing her first book of memoirs, anticipated for publication in 2027.

Private studio viewings are available by appointment. Her studio is located in downtown Lawrence, Kansas, shared with her spouse, a tattoo artist. Inquiries may be made by email.