Clare Gaylard Glass 

Snow at Easter.

My favourite hand-model is home for the holidays....

Also at Hereford Catherdral: a room fragrant with leather, parchment and vanilla - filled with old books that might otherwise escape.

In Shropshire, floods, snow and sunshine. Visited Hereford Cathedral to see the Mappa Mundi and also found 'The Weeping Window'.

These are 'Deep Waters', about being on Orkney and looking across cairns at the scuttled ships in the Scarpa Flow. 

At the Tate this weekend, our youngest chose Freud to study a portrait painting style - which totally works for me. Serendipitously found he was at Tate Britain - but definately with more nudes than they bargained for.

We are over these days when the sky is this colour from dawn to dusk. Around midday in London on Saturday.

At Snape Maltings today for a meeting and so was the spring.

I liked the grey one best.

I know we have the sea and shouldn't be greedy - but I miss this sort of thing. A couple of inspiring days in The Cotswolds.

I often compare this process to trying to keep honey on a knife or spoon.

The wonderful lichen on this gravestone in Great Glemham churchyard caught my eye, it's right in the zone of ochre to eau de nil that I'm caught up in at the moment.  

Last December I met silversmith Gabriella Lane at Blackthorpe Barn, I was fascinated by her craftsmanship and distinctive personal style. So I was delighted to find that she used one of my vessels in on of her commissions. Amongst other things she creates remarkable boxes of artefacts that have been designed to capture the recipient's life & interests. http://gabriellalane.com/commissions.php

Friend and talented printmaker/teacher Annette Rolston ran her second 'Print in Action' day at Designer Markers 21 in Diss last weekend, taster print sessions and an exhibition of print across the road at the Corn Hall. We were able to do drypoint and linocut with experienced printmakers Mario Gonzales and Zelda Eady. Our youngest enjoyed the fact we worked with 'Mario' and 'Zelda' from a Nintendo POV. Well worth looking out for the next event.

We went to see The Russia Season in Norwich on its last day -I found there is such a thing as too much Faberge, nice contrast with 'Radical Russia' exhibits though. It was the small (Oceanic?) figure from the permanent collection that stole my heart, in what I took to be a relateable attitude of being overwhelmed....