Clare Gaylard Glass 

Sketchbook page and two more Marginalia #glass love-token rings for all the people we would love to spend time with but can’t.

Happy Easter! An empty nest came down last autumn and made a winter wreath for the garden table. For the past two weeks birds have been pilfering and re-purposing the twigs for fresh nests. One of my small glass eggs and a bit of fresh greenery for the spring.

I have continued to add work to my Marginalia glass and Easter Week meets all the themes of rebirth, new life, resurrection and spring.

A handful of Herb Garden #glass rings, Messy March being over...

Our Spring 2020 exhibition was cancelled - so we are VERY happy to say that a month from now Glass & Print by @rolstonannette and me will open at the (lovely) Quay Gallery, Snape Maltings. 29th April - 6th May 2021 #savethedate

Two, glass Herb Garden rings, for the spring and a Happy Monday.

Two glass pendants and three final stages of the clematis Winter Beauty flower as it gives way to spring in muted shades of green.

I only realised I picked up the parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme combination when I found myself humming the song. Three glass pods for herb sprigs.

Stocking up on kitchen herbs and replacing a fifteen year-old rosemary tree that will be missed, at the lovely, nearby Walled Garden.

Blossom glass earrings and stacking rings, I’m mining my neglected stash of pink glass and thoroughly enjoying it. Thanks for the photo Liz.

Blackthorn in the hedgerows, sunshine (still) at 4.30pm and noisy birdsong everywhere. An embarrassment of riches, Suffolk spring.

I’m slightly bewildered to find my workbench covered in pink glass - the Cherry Plum blossom tree round the corner made me do it.

WELL some might say it’s a fool’s game comparing my work to that of Nature... in my (slight) defence, observe the base I sculpt these blossom earrings on - with molten glass, directly in a flame #noglue If you stayed with me this far, what is this exquisite blossom? My Mother called it old-fashioned cherry blossom.

One of the demonstration glass botanical rings I made for my Art for Cure Masterclass last weekend. I chose soft colours (in terms of manipulation rather than colour) that would flow smooth and fast for those watching - so the band is an ivory colour rather than the celadon I’ve been using. It’s going off to an attendee today and the AFC BLOOM event continues until March 21st. Meanwhile the Winter Beauty clematis is reaching its final flourish in the form of silky pom-poms.

Owl box on the evening walk, weathering into its host tree nicely.

Happy Mother’s Day! A throwback glass Posy ring from when I was looking at Victorian Valentines and the perfect floral backdrop from another Mother.