Medicinal winter sunlight and out-of-season seaside: find my #glass in the Christmas Exhibition at @craftco_southwold Upstairs Gallery, overflowing with treasures and treats in #textiles #print #ceramics #wood and #mixedmedia A few minutes walk from the seafront and wide sweep of silver coastline. This lovely show runs until 16th December.

Thanks to everyone who found their way to my Open Studio 🙏 it intrigues me when an overlooked item is seized on with relish. Red and The Wolf are all that remains of a #glass foray into folk tales a LONG time ago, currently having a polish and being packaged up before handover. Perhaps it’s time to go back into the woods.

This weekend #savethedate drop by to see latest #glass work, lovely archives, studio samples and demonstrations. Saturday and Sunday 6th & 7th, 11am - 4pm. Off the A1120 just outside Earl Soham (but before Saxstead Mill) Unit 2, Yew Tree Court, 21 Framlingham Road, Earl Soham, Suffolk IP13 7SG What Three Words: ///various.spell.mural

Light show before lighting #glass candlesticks for a special cake or celebration. Find a selection at Craftco in Southwold this December. I’m lining up latest work, lovely archives and studio samples for my Open Studio this weekend - as well as lighting up my torch for demonstrating. Saturday and Sunday 6th & 7th, 11am - 4pm. Off the A1120 just outside Earl Soham (but before Saxstead Mill) Unit 2, Yew Tree Court, 21 Framlingham Road, Earl Soham, Suffolk IP13 7SG What Three Wo

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!

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.

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.

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.

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

WIP: balancing numerous #glass elements for a cluster necklace. There’s no sunshine today so the glass doesn’t sing but it still glows.

Cluster #glass earrings of fragments, each one sculpted as a single tile, entirely in the flame. Final image: the cabinet of curiosities...

#glass and #ceramics synchronicity at @britishmuseum with kid #3 wearing one of my rings (next to early, soft-paste porcelain) and giving...

Archaist totem: a stacked sculpture of #glass elements, swipe to see it deconstructed into wearable parts. l developed my #totems to be...

Opening today at The Sentinel Gallery with @anglianarts in Wivenhoe, a lovely destination for an ‘end of summer’ week. Find a selection...

Find my #glass present glory and fragments of the past! The Suffolk Craft Society at Ickworth House.

‘The vessel with the pestle has the brew that is true’, anyone else? Three #lachrymatory bottles, or tear jars. Find my #glass in the...

Find my #glass On the World Stage at Ickworth House with the Suffolk Craft Society. The fragmentary nature of remains and archeological...