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Find a glowing selection of my #glass in this lovely @craftco_southwold Autumn Exhibition. Explore inspired works #print #ceramics #sculpture and #jewellery in the Upstairs Gallery, a happy five minute walk from the seafront rain or shine!

Glass fossils and drops for Southwold, delivered yesterday to to the Craftco winter show, opening today. Went for an elemental walk along the windswept seafront (and angry sea) and enjoyed it but not enough to linger and take photos :)

Fragment rings and necklace, find my #glass in Bury St Edmunds this November with the SCS. Words on the power of the #fragment from the 2018 Rodin and the Art of Ancient Greece at @britishmuseum other images from @museerodinparis 2019.

Exploring autumn, Mary Oliver ‘In Blackwater Woods’, ‘… you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go.‘

Colour therapy for this all-day, pall of grey. An early November gift from a skilled gardener, so I decided to pull the colours in #glass immediately and record the moment for future use.

Hoping everyone got a window of medicinal sunshine over the last day or two. Aldeburgh beachcoming, a dice on the sea wall - lucky side up, and a line of birds (cormorants?) flying low over the sea.

Find my #glass at @guildhall_burystedmunds this November, opening today - the @suffolkcraftsociety Winter Exhibition. Fragment necklace created by making impressions on molten glass with found objects. Based on the fragments of architectural detail and natural forms found in collectors cabinets of the 17th & 18th Century.

Find some glowing handfuls of my #glass at the unique creative hub that is @designermakers21 in Diss. ‘This shared, creative and vibrant centre embraces traditional and contemporary craft practices with an inspiring range of textiles, prints, sculptures, mosaics, jewellery, tailoring, weaving and ceramics.’ There are the studios of residents, gallery areas, exhibitions, popups and workshops. I’m delighted to be an Associate Member.

Pilgrim Glove vessel and votive candlesticks.

We have arrived at Halloween/Samhain having told October ghost stories and gathered our Curious Work at outofhand_art on Instagram. Find details of those pieces still available on our page. , We are offering ‘ghost’ pieces at a special rate for a limited time. These are trials and samples for work we have made, or are making, that you have seen, or are yet to see in our exhibitions. Sale begins Weds 29th October and ends Saturday 1st November (All Saints) at midnight. All pri

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Questions for @claregaylardglass Describe your practice in one sentence: Exploring form and narrative through the contradictory process of turning flamework glass into wearable art! How did you come to your primary medium? Via a degree in Silversmithing & Jewellery then teaching art. Twenty years ago I found a remaindered book called ‘Making Glass Beads’. I’d always been fascinated by glass but had never thought of the medium as being within my reach. I was immediately obses

‘The Spirit in the Bottle’ reflects a universal theme of an essence, relic or spirit contained in a vessel. Pitt Rivers Museum famously holds a bottle (swipe to see) said to contain a witch, who if let out will cause ‘a peck of trouble.’ Reliquaries (the foot of Mary Magdalen) carry the remains of saints, conferring miracles and blessings. Canopic jars preserve vital organs. ‘The Spirit in the Bottle’ is a fairytale from the Brothers Grimm, a European variant of the genie or

The Blashkas were father and son #glass artists from Bohemia, born in the 19th Century, making glass eyes was the initial family business. Their peerless and prolific work on plant and marine forms took place in an era when preservation methods lost much in the way of colour, form and detail. This and their skills led to commissions from collectors and museums around the world. As neither took an apprentice, many of their methods and techniques have been lost. I came across a

Coastal ghosts and buried treasure: nearby Aldeburgh (thinly disguised as Seaburgh) is the setting for A Warning to the Curious, a short story by M R James. The plot forms around the legend of three ancient crowns, buried along the coast of East Anglia as talismans for protection from invasion. A modern historian/treasure-hunter and an ancient guardian... You don’t have to look far for more stories around here, Dunwich, a thriving city that the sea took back, stories of bells

Six impossible rings before breakfast, experimentation is essential.