Clare Gaylard Glass 

ArtforCure Blue Sky exhibition opens online at 6pm today. Three of the twelve #glass rings I designed and made for the exhibition, among the work of 100 artists for #breastcancersupport - an amazing range of work, a great theme and an important cause. https://www.artforcure.org.uk/

We are here!

Three small #hotglass things: two Marginalia pendants and a tiny bottle. Packing my work for set-up at The Quay Gallery tomorrow.

I have designed a series of twelve rings exclusively for the upcoming Art For Cure exhibition Blue Sky. It's a a pleasure to be asked as the cause (breast cancer support) is such an important one and the idea of channeling optomism, inspiration and art is powerful. https://www.artforcure.org.uk/about-us

Symmetry is strictly optional #maximalist glass necklace for our upcoming exhibition at the Quay Gallery later this week.

Evening walk: colour magic.

Coming out of hibernation with Annette Rolston later this week for our annual spot at the Quay Gallery in lovely Snape Maltings.

Eight Artist Studios 26th&27th June #savethedate

Resilient teasels in the field behind my studio - they’ve weathered a fair few storms this year. Always make me think of Cold Comfort Farm.

I’m adding to my Herb Garden #glass at the moment, you can see how the greenery crept out of my Marginalia glass in January (also still current) met the first vivid colours of spring - and since then has taken root in its own story, more growth to follow.

A handful of summer, a little early - but I’m working on a series of rings specifically for the Art For Cure exhibition: Blue Sky which opens in May. Not colours I’d usually be reaching for yet but they are generating their own mood!

Cloud ring, I know they look more like clouds when I etch the cloud - but the play of light over the billows of this glass ring is so lovely I just left it. One of twelve ring designs I’ve made for the upcoming Art For Cure exhibition Blue Sky.

Pretty much the colours on my workbench today and the usual Suffolk proportions of sky to land, perfect day!

I’m summoning up summer at the torch for the upcoming @ArtForCure event: Blue Sky. Do these shapes and colours take you somewhere in particular? I’m curious as I’m making them for a place I’ve never been to.

Hoping everyone got to do something they’ve been missing yesterday.

My Cherry Blossom vase (or perfume bottle) with petal stopper and Blossom earrings currently in the Suffolk Open Studios online exhibition. The exhibition runs through April and showcases the work of over 60 Suffolk artists. 

Blue Sea glass, perfume-bottle pendant. This piece is in tonight’s raffle in support of splendid Suffolk Artlink who: ‘help people transform their lives through the arts by bringing skills, support networks, confidence and joy to communities in the East.’ a part of the Suffolk Open Studios online exhibition event - it’s still possible to register for the private view tonight via the SOS website and over sixty artists are participating.

Wave #glass ring in natural light, every angle yields different colours and shapes - and each ring is different as I sculpt them, one at a time, in the flame.

Snow, sun, strong winds hailstones, sleet - all the April weather in one day and a calm, COLD sunset. #aldeburgh

I’m telling tiny, #glass Marginalia stories for your ears. ‘The Fall’ and ‘Creation Myth’. ‘Pilgrim’ and for scale. I reckon if I had my ears pierced four times (some decades ago) in order to increase their potential for adornment, then starting with three and working upwards seems perfectly reasonable? Sculpted with molten glass, in the flame - directly onto very small, surgical steel posts. My sketchbook page and details from Les Tres Riche Heures du Duc de Berry in the background. A scallop shell was said to be carried by pilgrims to denote a reasonable amount of food they might beg without placing an undue burden on folks along their route if they were travelling with faith rather than food or money.