Gerda Guldemond (ne茅 Scholtemeijer) was born in 1967 and matriculated at Ho毛rsklool Verwoerdburg (now Centurion). She graduated with a BA Fine Arts degree in 1989 from the University of Pretoria where she majored in Printmaking under Erna Bodenstein-Ferreira. In 1994, she received a MA Fine Arts, majoring in Printmaking, from the Northwest University (then the Potschefstroom University CHE), under the guidance of renowned printmakers Titia Ballot (the then head of department at NMU) and John Clarke (then lecturer at UNISA).