Clare Gaylard Glass 

Colourplay, Kaleidoscope glass.

The Pond Gallery, lovely light. My Wave totem next to ceramics by Susie Bruce.

Along with fellow exhibitor Susie Bruce's ceramics. The Pond Gallery until Weds 28th August.

 Kaleidoscope rings WIP.

Two views of the Pond Gallery, alongside the work of artists and fellow SCS Makers Annabel Ridley, Susie Bruce and Kate Reynolds. Open to the end of Weds 28th August.

Snapped while setting up on Thursday, it was so hot we had the doors propped open and consequently I sold work before the exhibition opened. My Kaleidoscope glass and our view from the Gallery window at Snape Maltings. I'm looking out at Henry Moore, Snape Maltings Concert Hall, the reed beds and the River Alde, near perfection.

The other glass story for the upcoming exhibition at The Pond Gallery, Snape Maltings is a vibrant one. 

A reminder that you can find some of my 'Sunglitter' and 'Telling the Bees' glass at The Peter Pears Gallery until 26th August 2019. I took this photo at the outset of the exhibition in June so some items are no longer available.

I've been at the workbench and a drawback of this otherwise fairly sound website is that I can only upload from a PC. Hence my Instagram and Facebook profiles are the home of relaxed, regular posting. I've lost my heart to Instagram because it's mostly about the image. I've been making waves for the upcoming exhibition; Contemporary Art at The Pond Gallery, opening this Friday. Making these has actually been a meditative and serene process at an otherwise very hectic time. Link to my Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/claregaylard/ link to my Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/claregaylardglass/

Working glass directly in a flame is one of the most absorbing and direct methods of engaging with the medium - such a complete image of arrested motion.

I'm working towards exhibiting with fellow Suffolk Craft Society Makers Annabel Ridley and Susan Bruce.

Started with the Peacock in our garden (I'm usually too busy trying to help them escape from the house to get a photo) and then it was like finding a pearl in every oyster. There is a beautiful, ridged beetle nesting in the heart of the white flower. Names of flora and fauna as ever escape me.

You know you brought them up right when they take better photos of your work than you. I was pleased to bring this chap home with me, although my stock of buried treasure was rather depleted by the end of 'Above and Below', I came away with some wonderful work by fellow artists Clive Barnett and Madeline Nightingale - an occupational hazard of exhibiting with artists you admire.

To everyone who came by to lean in and observe fine detail and small things at Above and Below at The Quay Gallery over the past week. 

It wouldn't be a stint at The Quay Gallery without a photo of the lovely Cygnet moored outside. We have print, glass and stitch and fine weather.

'Buried Treasure glass for 'Above and Below at The Quay Gallery, Snape Maltings. "5th -31st July with Clive Barnett and Madeline Nightingale.

I took this photo last week in Devon on the cliffs above Hartland Quay and the oddness and extra-beauty of it has been low-key bothering me for a few days. I worked it out on getting back home, suddenly remembering clocking a sign at Hartland Quay saying that filming for 'Rebecca' by Du Maurier had recently completed - so the boat and the phrase Je Reviens is entirely significant artifice!

With Clive Barnett and Madeline Nightingale. 25th - 31st July 2019.