Talisman necklace with handmade #glass murrini, WIP for @beingwoman2026 this March.

Introducing Being Woman artist Clare Gaylard @claregaylardglass I sculpt with molten glass in an intense flame to create wearable art. I’m fascinated by the duality of glass as a fragile yet enduring medium. My work inhabits a place between adornment and sculpture, evoking processes of memory, touch, and transformation. As a storyteller, I’m drawn to artefacts, nature and narratives, the expression of drama through wearable ornament. In Being Woman I explore the risk and bur

There are ladybirds all over the herbs today, #glass herb garden WIP for @beingwoman2026 opening this March at @mandellsgallery in Norwich #savethedate

Muted landscape #colourplay in #glass looking forward to exploring the textures next. WIP for an upcoming project.

Throwback #liondancer glass earrings, swipe for a painting that IS the CNY mood (from when we lived in Thailand) and an explosion of colour in central Cambridge this week. I always miss the drums, but as a Fire Horse, I’m looking forward to 2026.

WIP for @beingwoman2026 this March #sacredheart ring and #reliquary vessel.

Mostly mud but also emerging colour.

Suddenly (at last) the two projects I’ve been working on have aligned, my #millefiori have jumped the fence and morphed from flowers into eyes. WIP for Being Woman at @mandellsgallery March-April 2026.

I knocked a carefully sorted thousand #glass flowers onto the floor while spring-cleaning my workbench. A warning not to clean - or a suggestion to mix things up?

Opening the kiln in the morning to remove #glass from the day before: when it’s good it’s very, very good and when it’s bad it’s horrid. Appreciation for @kilncare for my cleverly designed, capacious and reliable Maxi. Find video on my Insta or FB pages.

Joining up the dots: just realised I’ve had this postcard on my workbench since Christmas. More #murrini #millefiori and appreciation for #dutchmasters

Find the video on my Facebook or Instagram pages: Making #glass Millefiori: a meditation and a small winter garden on the workbench. This is a layered and absorbing process with endless variety to be had in the results. The larger-scale process constructs pattern by bundling coloured glass rods together in great clusters.

Experiment and play is the best (and often the only) way into a new year for me. Leading with impulse and colour over words and ideas is my proper reset. To that end I’ve been making a thousand flowers… millefiori: the process of creating complex #glass cane where the pattern runs down the cross-section. Then superheated, stretched, cooled and cut into numerous chips. I should/will show it better in a video when the natural light on my workbench is more generous.

Cure for the January blues - a gem of an exhibition at The Wolsey Gallery @ipswichmuseums A thoughtful and cleverly curated surge of Colour, Shape and Pattern. @uwu_studio_ Lily Hammond’s sketchbooks & bold birds, and an extraordinary model of Millbank Penitentiary (swipe) were particular favourites and it’s on until 22nd Feb.

Medieval winter scape just around the corner on Tuesday, Framlingham castle and mere. All washed away now.

Happy New Year!

Appreciation for the best of 2025, for being able to create with and around so many inspiring people, organisations and places. Hoping everyone gets as much peace or party as they hope for this New Years Eve 🙏

Mildred Holland (let’s use her name) enacted a magnificent restoration of the ancient chancel roof of the church of St Mary the Virgin in nearby Huntingfield between 1859 and 1866. Mildred is referred to as The Lady on the Ladder, The Huntingfield Paintress and the Rector’s Wife and there is a suprising amount of speculation about her corsets and petticoats in the available information. Appreciation for Mildred’s management of her undergarments AND a paintbrush at the same ti

My last workshop of 2025 was today, light work above from the Friday session!