Lidia Zavadsky (originally Felicia Schindler) was born in 1937 in Drohobych, Poland (today Ukraine).
As a result, she worked in cleaning and soon felt discontented, turning to the Polish embassy to ask for a permit to return.
They found support in each other and decided to stay in Israel and start a new career in art studies at the Bezalel Academy.
In 1982 she was invited as guest lecturer for McGregor Art School at Toowoomba, In 1981 she published a book about Rakou techniques and working processes.
Her art was characterized by deep intellectual curiosity and neverending experimentation with techniques, materials and ways of expression.
She studied ancient traditional Chinese glazing methods of the Tang Dynasty in China and applied them to her art while creating human size jars in bright colors derived from lead.
As a consequence of using toxic lead for her art, Lidia developed cancer and died at age 64 in November 2001.