Clare Gaylard Artisan Glass 

It's only January but we are already hatching plans for the summer, I will be exhibiting at The Quay Gallery at Snape Maltings with two other talented artist/makers, Clive Barnett and Madeline Nightingale. We got together to take a look at some work in progress. For the highly organised, the diary dates are 25th-31st July and our exhibi...

It has gone suddenly cold.

Christmas Day in Framlingham and New Years Day on the coast at Shingle Street - subtle Suffolk.

Thanks to everyone who came by today - my workbench looks this pristine twice a year. A lovely cold, sunny day but warm at the torch. I managed to disemburse myself of new work before I had the chance to photograph it - which is an interesting problem to have, so here is the view from my studio.

This Saturday afternoon I will be at my studio in Earl Soham from 12 noon to 5pm - visitors welcome. For those further afield you can find my work in Essex at The Sentinel Gallery and in Norfolk at Great Walsingham Gallery.

A box of treasures for the Sentinel Gallery in Wivenhoe, exhibition now open.

These Autumnal Things arrived when I was at the torch a week or so ago and refused to fit in to my gold leaf agenda. This is what walking (very slowly due to three-legged dog) through wet leaves and looking at berries and dried seed pods does to a person. This person.

A long autumnal drive to Norfolk to take some glass for the Winter Exhibition at this inspiring gallery. 

I'm at Blackthorpe Barn this weekend with a tranche of my work. Setting up a multitude of tiny elements in a medieval barn is interesting work.... This six weekend run of British Crafts has been called a 'Suffolk Chelsea Crafts Fair' - which is engagingly confusing - and appropriate. 

I'd call it a dragon.

Revisiting my sketches, tiny Ghost King Vanitas sculptures and jewellery-making based on M R James, Victorian-era ghost story set in nearby Aldeburgh: 'A Warning to the Curious'.

Instant sunshine.

Tiny glass pot with gold leaf and handmade murrini.

Escaping paperwork and taxes. Singularly lovely sun&shadows on a favourite Victorian gravestone in Dennington churchyard.

.. a poem lovely as a tree' is a bit of doggerel that presents itself whenever I see an awe-inspiring tree. I share the sentiment even if I'd rather it didn't, conkers are similar.

The wraps are off the Fitzwilliam and mighty fine it is too - unless you are all about 'Truth to Materiels' - I'm aesthetically flexible.

It's been a long summer for one reason or another, very happy to be back at the torch and engaging with autumn.