email: guddejane@yahoo.com

www.studiofusiongallery.co.uk

With her Scandinavian background and training at Hornsey College of Art, Gudde’s early works were primarily concerned with the symbiotic relationship between reflective precious metal surfaces and translucent colour, expressed as jewellery in an abstract form using the champlevé technique.

After working with artists around the world, her more recent pieces have explored the symbolism of different cultures, presented as cloisonné and painterly jewellery enamel, or miniatures set into repousséd pewter wall panels. Later she developed the idea of combining items of jewellery within wall panels.

Following exposure to printmaking, Gudde’s work has further evolved. Enamelled silver brooches are the central motifs in etched and patinated copper wall panels. They can be removed to be worn and subsequently returned to restore the panels’ compositions.

There are complementary limited editions of prints taken from the copper plates, some delicately hand coloured and others printed onto sumptuously enamelled panels.
Gudde’s current work, a series of brooches in various metals, continues to explore cultural symbolism, juxtaposing a combination of traditional and unorthodox enamelling and printmaking styles to evoke a spectrum of dynamic experiences in texture and colour.

Winner of the Lithuanian Goldsmith’s Award and a Freeman of the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths and the City of London, Gudde has work in the permanent collections of the Museum for Decorative, Applied, and Folk Art, Moscow, and the Vilnius Goldsmiths and Enamel Art Museum, Lithuania.

She has exhibited at, amongst others, the Oxford Gallery and CCA Galleries, Cambridge; Kunstverein Coburg, Germany; and Enamelling Art in Japan, Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo.

Her work can be seen at Studio Fusion, OXO Tower, London.