Lynda Metcalfe began blacksmithing and designing architectural ironwork during her undergraduate degree ‘3D-Design (Metals)’ at the West Surrey College of Art & Design in England. After graduating in ‘92 she apprenticed with  an architectural blacksmith in England and worked on a variety of large scale projects.

Lynda was the metals artist-in-residence at the Appalachian Center for Crafts in Tennessee in 2000/2001, has taught blacksmithing at the John C Campbell Folk School and the Appalachian Center for Crafts and demonstrated for state and local blacksmithing groups.  Lynda works from her shop in Brasstown, shared with husband Elmer Roush.

Lynda and Elmer married in 2001, with a wedding day that involved some symbolic joint forging of a steel ring as well as the formal wedding ceremony.  They have been designing and working along side each other since then and had a son, Joel, in 2003.