Clare Gaylard Glass 

This was my last Suffolk Open Studio weekend for 2012 but I am happy to take studio visits and do demonstrations by appointment. I am very absorbed in and convinced by what I do, so showing the process and where I take it is a pleasure. I'm not sure you ever stop being a teacher, for better or for worse. I enjoy imparting information and delight in the curiosity of (and interaction with) a varied audience. Visitors bring their own gifts in terms of insights but also exhibiting courage in arriving with little direct knowledge but great interest. You can go a long way with that attitude, I have.

I had a hiatus of about a year before getting my studio set up here, a very long year. I have now had the pleasure of settling back into my work and feeling a bit less like the Emperor's New Clothes. I have an affection for this photo, it was my last studio in Singapore, look at the quality of the light! Monkeys used to come on fruitbowl raids along our line of houses, the heat was tremendous: a torch, forty degrees outside, a kiln running and no air-con. When the air-con men came to do a service they designated my studio 'Your junk room' there's a cutting down to size for someone who works small already.

Now I am seeing and feeling four seasons in one day- well I did miss Autumn and Winter in Asia. Thanks to all my guests and visitors, new and returning, what a pleasure.