Clare Gaylard Glass 

Fossil totem #2, swipe to see it deconstructed into wearable parts. It’s a satisfying moment in creating a new totem, after some time sifting through multiple elements, when they coalesce into a happy visual balance.

This weekend I’m on the Art Around Framlingham Trail and having done my first Open Studio in 2011 that’s a decade of Suffolk Open Studios for me. I always want to see ‘how’ and know ‘why?’, plus there’s nothing quite like seeing molten glass being sculpted in the flame - albeit on a reduced scale!

Small sunsets, planets, waves and raindrops by the handful. Take the weather (or a tiny microcosm of it in glass) with you. Find me for Suffolk Open Studios as part of the Art Around Framlingham Trail this weekend. 

Find my glass at The Pond Gallery with the Suffolk Craft Society.

Dragonfly glass rings at Old Harnessmakers in Harleston. A simple shape but shifting iridescence with every movement.

Fossil #glass vessel and rings, summer sunshine and being the first one to see the sea... I’v been lavish with the silver leaf. Off to the Suffolk Craft Society exhibition at The Pond Gallery @snapemaltings opening this Friday.

Since I’m mining inspiration from past holidays in Yorkshire: rock pools, fossils and blue skies, in particular Robin Hood’s Bay and Whitby. The last one is Castle Howard, as I can’t resist an intrados - or an extrados for that matter.

I’ve been mining old photos of holidays spent in Whitby and Robin Hoods Bay hunting for fossils, more armchair travel during lockdown.Sculptural, faceted Fossil rings and Ammonite Ball pendant in opalescent #glass the summer sky & sea blending into each other on the horizon. For the upcoming SCS exhibition at The Pond Gallery, Snape Maltings. https://www.suffolkcraftsociety.org/

London Day: museums are open again and I’d wanted to visit this place forever. Sir John Soane’s Museum, a townhouse stacked to the rafters (and the cellars) with astonishing things and hosted by low-key and highly-knowledgeable folk. An absolute treasure chest.

Find an iridescent handful of my Dragonfly #glass rings with other art and making at the newly opened Gallery: Old Harnessmakers in Harleston.

All the greens, #glass garland necklace - it’s a very late spring here and the leaves on the trees haven’t deepened into a more uniform green yet.