Clare Gaylard Glass 

For the lady who came in and said none of the nice rings ever fitted her. Same. 

I make A3 ink & watercolour sketches for myself as I work on themes in glass, they express what I'm thinking about. I like to show them with my glass when I exhibit - I've finally had prints and postcards made up of some so I don't need to refuse sales...

The windmill round the corner from my studio on a clear spring evening.

We are looking forward to opening at The Quay Gallery next Friday. Snape Maltings is a cultural centre in a designated 'Area of Oustanding Natural Beauty' so there is plenty to do and see aside from our printmaking and flamework glass. 

Some 'Shoreline' and 'Rockpool' rings with handmade murrini.

.... and we are only just enjoying Spring - but I'm pleased to find I have been chosen to exhibit my glass at 'Best of British' at Blackthorpe Barn on the last weekend of November and the first of December 2017.

A recipe for Singapore spice mix that looks as good as it tastes and a proper workhorse of a pestle and mortar from Thailand.

Just back from Yorkshire - our very happy compromise for not driving all the way to the Scotland I grew up in. Later this year for that!

Amazing days at the end of March being properly: 'Comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb'. I took new work to Great Walsingham Gallery and enjoyed the way the sun lit up my 'Buried Treasure' rings.

Aldeburgh on Mother's Day - cars often seem generic to me. These less so - the gold one had a bench for a front seat, I haven't seen that since an uncle's vintage car as a child. That's a car.

My excuse is that I was looking at Victorian Valentines......

I'm delighted to have been accepted as a member of The Suffolk Craft Society - I did my Art Foundation course at The Suffolk College in Ipswich about a hundred years ago, so it feels like coming home.

An exhibition at The Quay Gallery this May with Annette Rolston, details to follow.

I'm making waves again and just find out that I'm in good company - Beyond the Great Wave, Hokusai at the British Museum, looking forward to this one.

A dusting of snow outside changing the quality of light in my studio.

It's bleak in Suffolk so I'm looking at the beautiful Spirit House from the British Embassy in Thailand and remembering warmth, abundance and light instead.