Latvian jewellery designer Guntis Lauders

Fish princess brooch pendant. Silver, black pearls, mammoth tusk. Jewellery designer Guntis Lauders

Latvian jewellery designer Guntis Lauders
Born 31 May 1965 in Riga, Guntis Lauder is a talented and creative jewellery designer. He graduated from the Department of Metal Design of the Tallinn Art Institute (1992), and Latvian Academy of Arts (2005). Since 1996, Lauders participated in international group exhibitions in Europe, America and Russia. Laureate of the Baltic Triennial of Applied Arts in Tallinn. Noteworthy, in 1998, the Riga City Council awarded him with the title of “The best jewelry artist of the year”. His works decorate the Latvian Museum of Applied Arts and Design, as well as private collections around the world.

The artist’s handwriting is instantly captured in the details, forms and materials he used. To achieve this, he masterly uses such classic jewelry technologies as inlay, engraving on a mammoth tusk and an ebony tree. Among other techniques are soldering, casting and forging. Traditionally, the designer uses silver, mammoth tusk, garnets, green amethyst, pyrite, agate, smoky quartz, ebony, black and white pearls, topaz and more.

“I would like my jewelry to be passed from generation to generation”. The materials he uses can withstand time and do not fade. According to Guntis, in the creative process he does not like any restrictions.