Clare Gaylard Artisan Glass 

Lampwork Glass, Jewellery and Wearable Art, created by me: Clare Gaylard in my Suffolk studio.

'There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion' Francis Bacon

                                                              Flamework / Lampwork

The traditional, scaled-down version of glassblowing, glass is melted in an intense flame and either worked free-form or wrapped around a metal rod and sculpted while molten. The glass I use most frequently is still made on the Venetian island of Murano. 

Working with glass is a synthesis of powerful elements: colour, light, fire and a medium that moves rapidly between liquid and solid states. 

                                                              Practice

As an artist and designer-maker I'm engaged in approaching the universal through the particular. All work and ideas are my own, I do not copy or mass produce.


The glass and the processes I use are of a quality chosen to extend the lifespan  and beauty of my work. I kiln anneal and hand clean all my glass. Annealing soaks the glass at 960 degrees then cools it gradually over ten hours, reducing the chance of stress fractures and strengthening the glass.

                                                              Places

I am a selected member of The Suffolk Craft Society and participate in exhibitions.


Visits to my studio can be made by appointment. I have work in progress, for sale and I work to commission.


You will find  a range of my glass at Great Walsingham Gallery

 

I take part in exhibitions throughout the year, details of upcoming exhibitions can be found here.


I am a member of the Suffolk Craft Society

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