Clare Gaylard Art Glass 

Lampwork Glass, Jewellery and Wearable Art, created by me: Clare Gaylard in my Suffolk studio.

Sculpting molten glass, in the flame, making wearable art, totems, tokens and talismans.

Online Exhibition: SOURCE (in lieu of the Quay Gallery)
Instagram 2nd-9th May 2020

 I design and create unique sculptures, vessels and wearable art by sculpting with glass in an intense flame. This is traditionally known as lampwork or flamework. I work mainly in glass, exploring my ideas and developing my designs through sketching and painting.

I am inspired by people, places, objects, artefacts and words. My glass tells stories, celebrates colour, pattern, light and the beauty of the small.


Lockdown: Making and Revisiting

During lockdown we celebrated World Bee Day, and I had the time to revisit a sculptural, lampwork glass totem ‘Queen Bee’, a goddess figure and tribute to our wonderful but endangered pollinators.

Lampwork involves sculpting molten glass in an intense flame. My totems are vertical stacks of wearable, jewellery elements. Each element is made entirely in the flame and I use my own millefiori. I developed Queen Bee by encasing goldstone to make my own complex, twisted glass cane, and created the additional bee element in the middle. I think this gives the totem a sense of movement and punctuation.

Having commissioned stands from a local woodturner at the end of 2019, I had a little extra height to play with and included other elements below the ‘crown’ ring. I feel she looks properly regal now.

         

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