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Gudde’s early works reflect her Scandinavian background - the symbiotic relationship between precious metal surfaces and translucent colour, in the form of abstract champlevé jewellery.
After working with artists abroad, she has explored cultural symbolism, in cloisonné and painterly enamelled jewellery and miniatures set in repousséd pewter wall panels. From this emerged the idea of combining jewellery with wall panels.
Gudde’s work has further evolved through her fascination with printmaking. She creates enamelled silver brooches as focal points in etched and patinated copper wall panels. They can be removed to be worn and returned to restore the panels’ compositions. There are also complementary limited editions of prints taken from the copper plates, some delicately hand coloured and others printed directly onto sumptuously enamelled panels.
Currently, Gudde continues these themes with a collection of jewellery and panels in various metals, juxtaposing a combination of traditional and unorthodox enamelling and printmaking styles to evoke a spectrum of experiences in texture and colour.
Winner of the Lithuanian Goldsmith’s Award and a Freemen 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.
