Clare Gaylard Glass 

Only one more weekend of Open Studios to go but I think the award for 'Most Disgruntled Trailing Spouse' is probably in the bag. While his wife having watched me flameworking, examined my glass a weary and bewlidered gentleman gestured round my studio and said: 'We see this stuff everywhere we go, who buys it all?'

It was clearly a cry from a troubled soul so I answered it gently and said that for some people a link or relationship to the creation/creator of a object, and an ancient craft had a particular value of its own.