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.

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.

I’m about to teach my final two workshops of 2025, HOWEVER - they make a marvellous gift and are not contingent on final postage dates before Christmas… find out more via the contact page on my website, link in my profile. Find selections of my #glass this December at @designermakers21 at @craftco_southwold and @walsinghamgalleryandframing all destinations for unique and memorable arts and contemporary crafts.

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...