Clare Gaylard Artisan Glass 

Walking at dusk, still a bit chilly.

I've been working on a commission which involves silver-leaf so I seized the opportunity to add a Viking and  a vessel to my 'Treasure in the Landscape' glass.

...serve to tempt me from  this craft of verse..' WB Yeats. It's more 'take' than 'tempt' for me. My first day back at the torch for well over a week and my first walk in the fields for the same. I'm uncomfortable about the sun going down without me but it seemed to manage and I got a handful of treasures from the hedgerows to say welcome back.

Thanks to everyone who passed through The Quay Gallery. My next project (apart from commissions) is Suffolk Open Studios, I will be open every weekend in June and am part of two Trails. Information to follow!

Last day at The Quay tomorrow: lovely, light and tranquil place watching the tide come in and out, almost like being on a boat. Last day tomorrow.

A whiplash weather day, four parts hailstorms, four of sun and blue sky, four of horizontal rain and strong winds and finally a rainbow which I'm taking as a promise it won't happen again. Here is some Sol glass and a Midsummer figure.

‘Love Letter to a Museum’ necklace includes the following glass elements which were all (inc gold leaf) entirely sculpted in the flame: 3 amphorae, 4 spheres, 6 leaves, 10 planets, 10 raindrops, 20 loops and 64 other miscellaneous glass beads.

This sort of thing comes from happy hours spent in museums leaning over Graeco-Roman artefacts. They will be coming with me to The Quay at Snape Maltings where I will be for the next week with Annette Rolston and Rob Wheeler.

Glass ring, I'm not quite ready for full-on spring colours and apparently neither is Spring. We had snow, sunshne, sleet and hailstones today. 

Would call them Truffula Trees. Clematis Tangutica.

I was about to clear the decks on my home workbench after a solid weeks' work and thought I might as well do a candid photo first. It gets much messier than this but I have to change my colour pathway - plus when it gets to this stage I loose small things and risk burning myself. Which I can put up with for quite a while.

The trees and hedgerows are noisy with nest building.

Shout out to my inspiring sister Eleanor Brown, writer and poet whose latest work is due out on Bloodaxe Books this October. I'll also mention that the cover  illustration by Liz Gaylard. https://www.bloodaxebooks.com/ecs/product/white-ink-stains-1223

Sifting images and updating on more recent work.

I've been making tiny glass buds, leaves and raindrops as springtime elements to slip onto earrings, I think that three is the magic number.