Clare Gaylard Glass 

Stay at the workbench and melt more glass and catch the last of this beautiful daylight at my torch or hurry up to the fields? Yesterday it was the fields.

I’m sorting out some of the ‘Moth’ glass I have been creating through this summer (and into autumn as the theme is so rich) to send to a winter show at Old Harnessmakers Art Gallery. Inspired by finding moths (alive and departed) at my studio in May during Lockdown - and beautiful words by Emily Dickinson: ‘Waif of the summer night, A myth in velvet dust, So bent on idle quest! Frail devotee of light.' Find more work in the Gallery of this website that I have been uploading through the summer.

Not Shy.

A glass tear jar or lachrymatory I made for Remembrance Day some years ago and an extract from the poem Bledewort by Eleanor Brown, from White Ink Stains:

‘the showy scarlet petals nod

on slender greyish hirsute stalks

abundant on the roadsides where

they took their evening courtship walks"

On a trajectory to Canada.

Kitchen alchemy from kind neighbours who know how to treat a quince - plus sunshine.

Sending some splendid Iris Foetidissima berries/seeds off with this package of small glass items to a plant lover. The contrast between the colours of the seeds and the flower is so great (although the flourish is the same) that I initially didn’t realise they were related.

I’ve been carving out a small space here on my website for a Glass Shop. I have a selection of my work available and am adding to it as items sell. I’ve chosen to start with Midsummer glass as it traps the light and evokes beautiful long days, warmth and abundance. Please share with any lovers of glass, treasure, adornment and singular artefacts made by the person who designed them. NB I’ve yet to add sizes for rings - Rome wasn’t built in a day... 

I was looking very spcifically for silver for a commission and achieving a rather alchemical gold instead. VERY frustrating at the time but a useful reaction for future projects.

Trying to take photographs using natural light is like working with a moving target. I'm sorting out work for some winter shows and a selection of my glass can always be found at Great Walsingham Gallery and Framing in Norfolk.

You will know the saying: 'May you live in Interesting times' WELL the past month has been like that in the wider world and very much so at home. So it was a wonderful tonic to receive these glowing, handmade, suprise gifts from artist and maker Clive Barnett (sketchbooks) and the scallop soap dish from sister-in-law and author Guinevere Glasfurd. Handmade is best.

To my Ghost King vanitas work and Buried Treasure totem. Based on the M R James story A Warning to the Curious set in nearby Aldeburgh. 

Thanks to everyone who came to see us at The Quay, despite the road diversions and exceedingly variable weather we had a lovely time as always. I will be having an Open Studio Day on December 12th and my work will be in at least three galleries this winter, more news to follow.

Looking hungry.

In the Quay Gallery, Snape Maltings.

Indoor vs outdoor light.

Autumn Flow totem and the outside of The Quay Gallery where we are based until next Wednesday.