Clare Gaylard Glass 

Sunday 15th December 11am - 3pm, at Flameworks, Unit 2 Yew Tree Court, 21 Framlingham Rd, Earl Soham, Suffolk, IP13 7SG

As you leave the main road, look left and you will see a row of barns on your far left. Follow the drive left and you will end up between my studio and the main road. NB: Bring or memorise these instructions as the barns are divided into four and numbered in a COMPLETELY erratic way.

Thanks to everyone who came by and re-visited. I'm finalising a date for a winter Open Studio as folks have things to collect and have made requests to come by, I should be able to post a time later today. I'd hoped to elide the matter as it has been a very busy winter but it's good to be able to say: By popular demand....

It's my second (and last) weekend at Blackthorpe Barn: Best of British Crafts. A terrible temptation to barter everything away for work of other Makers. This photo and (probably) any other beautiful ones of late are by Liz Gaylard.

One of my totems: Amethyst Lake, off to this beautiful gallery in North Norfolk - I have finally found a local woodturner to make me stands that I am happy with. On the left you can see how it can be deconstructed into wearable parts. 

Some of my more marble-like rings, glowing in the early afternoon, setting sun.

Find a range of my Terra Firma glass and Waves at the Sentinel Gallery 'Christmas Kaleidoscope' opening today in lovely Wivenhoe in Essex.

Driving across Southwark Bridge in the London rushour I noticed that the dome of St Pauls Catherdral was illuminated with an unusual image but couldn't tell what it was - a birthday nod to William Blake who always cherished a wish to see his art work on a grand scale in churches. You can see this until early December and he is still at the Tate into early 2020.

Back to Gormley, this body of work is immense, structured, simple and very human. For me it trumps the mass of self-aware, conceptual Brit Art of the past thirty years that is still being enacted as though the aging Gen X artists are enfants terrible. They know who they are. Being under the structure is curiously industrial and organic at the same time, like a static murmuration.

Great weekend at Blackthorpe catching up with old friends and meeting new Makers. Any photo of my work that I'm posting at the moment that looks fabulous is courtesy of Liz Gaylard.

Of Sol totem into wearable elements.

At Blackthorpe Barn. Two weekends, 23rd/24th Nov and 7th/8th Dec.

A handful of colour for a grey day. Getting work ready for Blackthorpe Barn this weekend, plus Walsingham Gallery and The Sentinel Gallery winter shows. 

'Terra Firma' totem of wearable glass elements.

A little sparkle.

Earring pairs.

Rock Strata large, glass pebble bead with fine silver.

If I hadn't walked behind this beautiful figure I would probably not have noticed the tiny hand. Having said that the sculpture was so amazing I had to see it in the round. Museo Nazionale Romano.

I thought I was putting a commission together on the side, but the colourway has completely taken over my workbench. I'm getting to the end of some limited-run glass here so reckon I might as well let it.