Clare Gaylard Glass 

My Instagram account for the past five years has been hacked. I am locked out and have NO control (or prospect of it) over its contents or my messages.

DO NOT ENGAGE WITH IT PLEASE REPORT AND BLOCK.

My new account and archive account are followed by the Suffo...

I’ve got a profile in the Crafts Council Directory! I remember looking up Makers as a student many years ago. I shall be adding in new glass created for exhibitions later this year once I’ve unpacked back into my studio from another happy stint at the Quay. A reminder if you saw me there, that I am doing a single Open Studio weekend this June if you would like to see more.

April portmanteau post...Spring arrives at last and I have taken a case of my work to a new gallery in Diss called Octagon Contemporary Crafts. I also took a print workshop in early April with Annette Rolston as I wanted to revisit some work based on caddisfly cases and enjoyed developing it into one of the collections I took to The Quay Gallery. I was very taken by drypoint etching as it suits my love of detail an...

Print and Glass, Annette Rolston and Clare Gaylard. April 28th -May 4th 2022 #savethedate

‘A Dove Has Spread Her Wings and Asked for Peace’ by Ukranian artist Maria Prymachenko (of whom Picasso said: "I bow down before the artistic miracle of this brilliant Ukrainian.").

Highlights! Back to the workbench after a spring-clean, full posts on Facebook or Instagram. Some transcendent weather along the coast. Two exhibitions: Gold of the Great Steppe in the Fitzwilliam, Cambridge - tiny marvels. Grayson Perry The Pre-therapy Years at Sainsbury Centre, Norwich: marvels of frankness, experimentation and surface pattern. A Tiger Eye ring for Year of the Tiger and the William Blake poem, The Tyger. A...

There is an App that delivers your nine most popular posts on Instagram in the form of a collage. I decided to take matters into my own hands when my most popular posts one year were photos of a tree and a passionflower - that I most certainly did not make. These are nine I have chosen and in my defence, it wasn't easy, I've had a prolific year and given myself permission to move with the seasons. To work more in a state...

The last sunset of 2021.

With appreciation for all the folks who came by for my Open Studio. Plus major thanks for the comments, queries, compliments, interactions and exchanges that occur online from those that can’t. Thank you for engaging with what I mak...

Saturday 11th December 2021 10am - 4pm, past and current work - plus a selection of randoms and experiments at lower prices!

Done and dusted, I managed to have some time in these rooms alone to set-up and take photographs, what a mood.

July 2020, The Longshed sits above the ongoing rebuild of the Sutton Hoo, Viking Drag...

Rolling Waves, buoyant and blue, glass ring at The Longshed Woodbridge Riverside Trust with Suffolk Craft Society this July.