Clare Gaylard Artisan Glass 

I often compare this process to trying to keep honey on a knife or spoon.

Last December I met silversmith Gabriella Lane at Blackthorpe Barn, I was fascinated by her craftsmanship and distinctive personal style. So I was delighted to find that she used one of my vessels in on of her commissions. Amongst other things she creates remarkable boxes of artefacts that have been designed to capture the recipient's life & interests. http://gabriellalane.com/commissi...

Over the creative block and at the happy stage where I don't want to put the tools down.

These really take me back to the Scottish coast - there was an amber/ochre quality to the algae and the water was a cold, clear colour somewhere beautiful between green and blue.

After a week working with of bright colours I find I have unfinished business with inspiration, images and sketching found objects from the northern Scottish coast of last summer for my 'Selkie' glass.

Getting back to the drawing board and torch after the heightener of a 'New Year' seems a solid example of 'Boundary Effect' -  a name given to the forgetfulness that occurs when crossing a threshold. The most effective response seems to be to experiment and play, making a certain sacrifice of time and materials. So it's buttons for now.

It's not a colour that speaks to me very often, but I do enjoy these.

Some winter glass - I don't know where it came from (imaginatively speaking) but since we are heading for Christmas I might say it makes me think of frost and hard-boiled sweets.

These earrings are made one at a time, in the flame, directly onto a surgical steel post. As I put the first in the kiln I have to approximate the second in size and detail from memory - an engaging challenge with variable results...

The sun was shining very brightly when I took this photo and I was in a rush - but these 'Selkie' colours are based on deep, cold waters and waving seaplants from our visit to the far north of Scotland earlier this year. I was raised in Scotland - albeit as a sassenach, so every visit is medicinal. A Selkie is a seal-person that can present as human on shedding its skin, usually for love, but will return to ...

My first day at Blackthorpe Barn's 'Best of British Crafts' today, a clear day with frost everywhere. The drive across country with the sun coming up was stunning, the medieval barn - filled with amazing things and not as cold as it might have been. The group above came from the plate below, found in the London sewers - by the simplicity and beauty of the object and the phra...

Four artists from our 'Art Around Framlingham Trail' opened our studios to groups of secondary school students yesterday. It's the age group I used to teach and rather miss - when enthusiasm or inspiration takes hold it's a blast.

I'm mesmerised by this 'Shoreline' ring which manages to be both too small AND too large for me.....

Some people recoil when they notice the skulls in my vanitas/ghost king jewellery - not the lady who was drawn into the gallery in Aldeburgh by my ink & watercolour sketch. Before I could explain, she told me that she recognised 'A Warning to the Curious', that it was her favourite ghost story, and that she had brought it to read while in Aldeburgh - it is set in Aldeburgh thinly disguised as 'Seabu...