Clare Gaylard Glass 

‘A Dove Has Spread Her Wings and Asked for Peace’ by Ukranian artist Maria Prymachenko (of whom Picasso said: "I bow down before the artistic miracle of this brilliant Ukrainian.").

Highlights! Back to the workbench after a spring-clean, full posts on Facebook or Instagram. Some transcendent weather along the coast. Two exhibitions: Gold of the Great Steppe in the Fitzwilliam, Cambridge - tiny marvels. Grayson Perry The Pre-therapy Years at Sainsbury Centre, Norwich: marvels of frankness, experimentation and surface pattern. A Tiger Eye ring for Year of the Tiger and the William Blake poem, The Tyger. An egg for a Wolk Moon.

There is an App that delivers your nine most popular posts on Instagram in the form of a collage. I decided to take matters into my own hands when my most popular posts one year were photos of a tree and a passionflower - that I most certainly did not make. These are nine I have chosen and in my defence, it wasn't easy, I've had a prolific year and given myself permission to move with the seasons. To work more in a state of Flow, none of my fossil glass that spanned spring and summer is here, but you will find it on my gallery page.

I'm sorry to have been lax about my blog, it has been down more than up as Webs were bought out by Vistaprint, my main focus is now on Instagram which is all ease (gratis) and quality, I also maintain a page on Facebook and post to both very regularly. I have had this website since I built it in 2008, and am reluctant to go/move - but it could be time to switch things up. If you have followed me or returned thank you! I hope the past two years have not been too hard and that we are all in for smoother and happier times in 2022. Happy New Year and all the best, Clare

The last sunset of 2021.

With appreciation for all the folks who came by for my Open Studio. Plus major thanks for the comments, queries, compliments, interactions and exchanges that occur online from those that can’t. Thank you for engaging with what I make! I’m using a wide-angle (.5 reverse zoom) photo of my studio in one of these photos FYI, because it's so enjoyably ridiculous for recording such a small space. I think of it as The Estate Agent setting.

Saturday 11th December 2021 10am - 4pm, past and current work - plus a selection of randoms and experiments at lower prices!

Done and dusted, I managed to have some time in these rooms alone to set-up and take photographs, what a mood.

July 2020, The Longshed sits above the ongoing rebuild of the Sutton Hoo, Viking Dragonship, leading hanging in this vast, airy space was a pleasure - and a challenge as it was the first time it had been used as a gallery on this scale.

Rolling Waves, buoyant and blue, glass ring at The Longshed Woodbridge Riverside Trust with Suffolk Craft Society this July.

Throwback Thursday: Roman Tomb #glass - reading articles about excavations and seeing wonderful artefacts laid out in museum cases as a child. Getting my studio sorted out for workshops and easily distracted. A story shelved for something else but with possibilities.