Clare Gaylard Glass 

A handful of summer, a little early - but I’m working on a series of rings specifically for the Art For Cure exhibition: Blue Sky which opens in May. Not colours I’d usually be reaching for yet but they are generating their own mood!

Cloud ring, I know they look more like clouds when I etch the cloud - but the play of light over the billows of this glass ring is so lovely I just left it. One of twelve ring designs I’ve made for the upcoming Art For Cure exhibition Blue Sky.

Pretty much the colours on my workbench today and the usual Suffolk proportions of sky to land, perfect day!

I’m summoning up summer at the torch for the upcoming @ArtForCure event: Blue Sky. Do these shapes and colours take you somewhere in particular? I’m curious as I’m making them for a place I’ve never been to.

Hoping everyone got to do something they’ve been missing yesterday.

My Cherry Blossom vase (or perfume bottle) with petal stopper and Blossom earrings currently in the Suffolk Open Studios online exhibition. The exhibition runs through April and showcases the work of over 60 Suffolk artists. 

Blue Sea glass, perfume-bottle pendant. This piece is in tonight’s raffle in support of splendid Suffolk Artlink who: ‘help people transform their lives through the arts by bringing skills, support networks, confidence and joy to communities in the East.’ a part of the Suffolk Open Studios online exhibition event - it’s still possible to register for the private view tonight via the SOS website and over sixty artists are participating.

Wave #glass ring in natural light, every angle yields different colours and shapes - and each ring is different as I sculpt them, one at a time, in the flame.

Snow, sun, strong winds hailstones, sleet - all the April weather in one day and a calm, COLD sunset. #aldeburgh

I’m telling tiny, #glass Marginalia stories for your ears. ‘The Fall’ and ‘Creation Myth’. ‘Pilgrim’ and for scale. I reckon if I had my ears pierced four times (some decades ago) in order to increase their potential for adornment, then starting with three and working upwards seems perfectly reasonable? Sculpted with molten glass, in the flame - directly onto very small, surgical steel posts. My sketchbook page and details from Les Tres Riche Heures du Duc de Berry in the background. A scallop shell was said to be carried by pilgrims to denote a reasonable amount of food they might beg without placing an undue burden on folks along their route if they were travelling with faith rather than food or money.

Sketchbook page and two more Marginalia #glass love-token rings for all the people we would love to spend time with but can’t.

Happy Easter! An empty nest came down last autumn and made a winter wreath for the garden table. For the past two weeks birds have been pilfering and re-purposing the twigs for fresh nests. One of my small glass eggs and a bit of fresh greenery for the spring.

I have continued to add work to my Marginalia glass and Easter Week meets all the themes of rebirth, new life, resurrection and spring.

A handful of Herb Garden #glass rings, Messy March being over...

Our Spring 2020 exhibition was cancelled - so we are VERY happy to say that a month from now Glass & Print by @rolstonannette and me will open at the (lovely) Quay Gallery, Snape Maltings. 29th April - 6th May 2021 #savethedate

Two, glass Herb Garden rings, for the spring and a Happy Monday.

Two glass pendants and three final stages of the clematis Winter Beauty flower as it gives way to spring in muted shades of green.