Clare Gaylard Glass 

I'm digging deep, it's all about fossils.

Beautiful garden flowers arrived from Norfolk yesterday with a sturdy and tenacious little stowaway. I’m told by the sender that those attributes are typical for Norfolk! It bounced a way across the kitchen floor, wiped its antennae and marched off into the garden in its more than adequate armour. May have to revisit last year's beetle ring.

Making up the deficit in our weather... Blue Sky ring among the twelve I designed for Art for Cure's Blue Sky exhibition throughout May 2021, a juicy, confident blue cabachon with a ray of sunlight as a couterpoise. https/www.artforcure.org.uk/

Sketchbook, colour inspiration with pendant and ring.

Last summer it was the soft sheen of moth wings. These #glass rings are about the hyper-iridescence of a dragonfly as it circles and dives, never quite close enough to photograph - in my experience. Packing up a selection of the latter made for Old Harnessmakers upcoming show 27th May #SaveTheDate

Eggshells in the hedgerows now - like chunks of turquoise in the undergrowth and cuckoo pint.

Hoping everyone is having a Blue Sky Sunday! Find me and fellow Suffolk Craft Society Makers Simon Turner, Kate Reynolds and Carol Pask among the 100 Artists in the uplifting Art for Cure Online Exhibition for #breastcancersupport https://www.artforcure.org.uk

The final flourish of Muriel the Parrot Tulip. She was (after well over a week) fully drooping so I thought I’d get a photo on blue&white china.

Voyage #glass ring. A wide band of turquoise: sunlight over blue skies or expansive seas. The suggestion of a map and the tiny microcosm of a world to discover. One of the rings designed for and available through the Art for Cure Blue Sky exhibition. Online through May https://www.artforcure.org.uk/

The Tulip Fairy has visited again with some wonderfully sharp, sherbet, citrus colours that are going to be VERY distracting as I have another #glass colour palette on the go. A joyful bundle to receive.

Final day at The Quay Gallery with Annette Rolston and (currently) friendly weather.

Coast #glass figure at The Quay Gallery until close of Weds this week, OR a glass wave of mine to be found at the Art for Cure Blue Sky, Online Exhibition if you can’t make your way to the sea this May...

Little glass Marginalia stories in trios and twisties. Let’s also take a moment to appreciate my Dr Martens Di Paolo bag on it’s first outing - I got it for Christmas before the first lockdown, so #carpediem it’s vibing nicely with my medieval glass, at The Quay Gallery with Annette Rolston enjoying gentler weather.

Its been another four seasons of weather in one day at Snape Maltings and folks being blown into the Quay Gallery looking a bit shell-shocked, and wet. We are pleased to offer two radiators, shelter from the rain and and wonderful glass & print now here’s the sun again... For more reliable Blue Sky, visit the online Art for Cure exhibition and find a collection of twelve rings I made exclusively for the event.

At the Quay Gallery with Glass & Print, sunshine, sharp breezes and a Farmers Market. Happy and inspiring times at Snape Maltings as usual with Annette Rolston.