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Stormy Weather

Posted by cmgaylard on October 10, 2020 at 11:55 AM

Thunder and torrential rain today. Stormy weather ring with raindrop counterpoise.

Small Beginnings

Posted by cmgaylard on January 11, 2020 at 6:15 PM

The fragment of Amethyst Geode at the centre of these images (and a lovely commission) was the seed of my exploration in glass shown around it, and more. I love a microcosm, and this journey was all the more pleasing for having been unplanned. There was a moment post-commission when I could have cleared the colours off my workbench and reverte...

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Ringstack

Posted by cmgaylard on January 10, 2020 at 11:55 AM

Some of the smaller rings I've been making, the narrowest ones stack beautifully and have a slightly underwater quality.

Rock Strata Goddess

Posted by cmgaylard on January 5, 2020 at 6:30 PM

This was the commission that led me astray on an ivory and amethyst colourway towards the end of last year. There is always a tension between following well-laid plans and taking a tangent, I'm happy that I cleared my workbench for this and all that ensued, but I still have business to do with water and bright colour. Plu...

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#bestnine2019

Posted by cmgaylard on December 31, 2019 at 2:00 PM

All the best for the turn of another decade and thank you for coming by. Health, abundance and happiness for 2020. Thanks to temporary resident Liz Gaylard for making time to take some of the better photos (six out of nine here) amidst personal, creative projects.

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Happy Christmas!

Posted by cmgaylard on December 27, 2019 at 9:30 AM

To those that celebrate, I thought I'd posted this. An old collage (lovely George Herbert and the Metaphysical poets in general) and this years wreath looking very nest-like due to needing to use ivy as a bin...

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Faux Sunlight

Posted by cmgaylard on December 19, 2019 at 11:30 AM

Colour and gold-leaf being particularly attractive on these grey days. Thanks to everyone who came by my studio and you can find my work at The Sentinel Gallery & Great Walsingham Gallery and Frame this December.

Spring Cleaning

Posted by cmgaylard on March 7, 2018 at 2:35 PM

Had a tidy in the hopes of encouraging Spring, got a snowstorm. Actually looking at this photo it was definately more of a tidy than a clean, that may be where I went wrong. 

Gabriella Lane

Posted by cmgaylard on February 20, 2018 at 6:35 PM

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...

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Winter Sun.

Posted by cmgaylard on January 26, 2018 at 12:45 PM

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.

Then Again..

Posted by cmgaylard on January 25, 2018 at 1:45 PM

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

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Pink

Posted by cmgaylard on January 14, 2018 at 11:55 AM

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

Rockpools

Posted by cmgaylard on December 14, 2017 at 6:40 PM

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...

You and I are Earth

Posted by cmgaylard on November 25, 2017 at 2:05 PM

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 i...

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Lilac Wine Blues

Posted by cmgaylard on November 11, 2017 at 6:50 PM

Delivering a tranche of mysterious and evergreen glass for the Suffolk Craft Society Winter Exhibition at the Suffolk Food Hall opens this Thursday. Best Local Food venue in the UK & Ireland as judged in the Countryside Alliance Rural Oscars.

WIP

Posted by cmgaylard on October 14, 2017 at 5:05 PM

Catching the Light

Posted by cmgaylard on June 16, 2017 at 11:20 AM


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.

Shoreline

Posted by cmgaylard on June 1, 2017 at 5:55 PM

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

Aldeburgh Gallery

Posted by cmgaylard on May 22, 2017 at 1:05 PM



Cinderella Moment

Posted by cmgaylard on May 22, 2017 at 12:40 PM

Making a ring for the petite daughter who inherited a different set of  genes.... I'm not going to call it an ugly sister moment.



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