Clare Gaylard Glass 

A whiplash weather day, four parts hailstorms, four of sun and blue sky, four of horizontal rain and strong winds and finally a rainbow which I'm taking as a promise it won't happen again. Here is some Sol glass and a Midsummer figure.

‘Love Letter to a Museum’ necklace includes the following glass elements which were all (inc gold leaf) entirely sculpted in the flame: 3 amphorae, 4 spheres, 6 leaves, 10 planets, 10 raindrops, 20 loops and 64 other miscellaneous glass beads.

This sort of thing comes from happy hours spent in museums leaning over Graeco-Roman artefacts. They will be coming with me to The Quay at Snape Maltings where I will be for the next week with Annette Rolston and Rob Wheeler.

Glass ring, I'm not quite ready for full-on spring colours and apparently neither is Spring. We had snow, sunshne, sleet and hailstones today. 

Would call them Truffula Trees. Clematis Tangutica.

I was about to clear the decks on my home workbench after a solid weeks' work and thought I might as well do a candid photo first. It gets much messier than this but I have to change my colour pathway - plus when it gets to this stage I loose small things and risk burning myself. Which I can put up with for quite a while.

The trees and hedgerows are noisy with nest building.

Shout out to my inspiring sister Eleanor Brown, writer and poet whose latest work is due out on Bloodaxe Books this October. I'll also mention that the cover  illustration by Liz Gaylard. https://www.bloodaxebooks.com/ecs/product/white-ink-stains-1223

Sifting images and updating on more recent work.

I've been making tiny glass buds, leaves and raindrops as springtime elements to slip onto earrings, I think that three is the magic number.

Just had a great couple of days catching up and swapping tips with old friend Claire Underwood in her London workshop. We did our art foundations and BA Hons (Jewellery and Silversmithing circa 1989) together and even lived (at different times) on neighbouring streets in Bangkok. Our incredibly different styles and approaches keep things lively. Claire's work (shown below) is colour-rich, detail-oriented and currently very kinetic.

In natural light, a night sky on your finger.

Well it's looking like Spring - but in England that doesn't mean anything. This weekend find some of my glass alongside the work of other Suffolk artists at Great Glemham Village Hall, IP17 2DH Saturday 23rd and Sunday 24th Feb from 11am-5pm.

This is not the mist of early dawn, it's tear gas. We took child #3 to Paris to do a weekend's drawing at galleries and museums and ended up both staying and being in the epicentre of the current protests. We retreated from riot police on this bridge and got a dose of tear gas while passing underneath. We moved around barricades, protests and metro closures all weekend. Child #3 said it was the best holiday ever.

I got out some (usually avoided) pink glass to make something for Valentines day - as I have recently had scant time at the torch and it seemed a good excuse. What rose to the surface was a set of three rings - Octopus, Tentacle and Eye, if that's not romantic I don't know what is.

In a grain of sand and heaven in a wildflower. Thank you William Blake.