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In 2007 Bayliss started an eight-year engagement as a design director for Blenko Glass Company in West Virginia whose artistic outcome has been favorably reviewed in the press. In 2016, Bayliss´s art designs for Blenko were exhibited at the Beaney House of Art and Knowledge, Canterbury, as part of the West Virginia University art collection. Bayliss´s studio glass make part of collections found in specialized museums, among them the Musee’ des Arts Decoratifs, in Lausanne, Switzerland, the National Museum of Scotland, and are registered in the Corning Museum of Glass Rakow Research Library.

Bayliss´s large public art started in 1993 with the inauguration of Helios, a sculpture made up of glass sheets arranged as a double helix, which stands at the center of a fountain outside the Anderson University campus’ main science building. This was followed (1996–2001) by the development of the Crystal Arch project, a steel framework (17-feet tall / 36-feet long) carrying hundreds of multi-faceted, multi-colored crystals. This monument was designed by Bayliss jointly with teaching colleague Jason Knapp to celebrate the city’s cultural heritage and diversity and stands today in public display at Anderson City Hall after refurbishing in 2011.

In 1990 Bayliss moved to the US to establish the glass program at Anderson University, where he was distinguished as a Professor Emeritus of Art in 2014. Alongside academic duties, Bayliss has also kept a private professional practice allowing him to design and develop a series of sponsored public artwork, as well as to design studio glass art pieces and collections for renowned Venetian glass and decorative glassmakers. Distinctions received by the artist include the 2017 Honor Award for Monumental Public Art (Indianapolis).

Bayliss obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in Ceramics from Bristol Polytechnic (now UWE) in 1978. This was followed by receiving a Master's degree in Arts in Glassmaking at the Royal College of Art in (London ,1981). His education continued by studying and working at Lobmeyr and Co. in Vienna, the Leerdam Factory in Amsterdam, the Rosenthal GmbH in Germany, Isle of Wight Glass in England, and Steuben Glass in Corning, NY.

Arlon Bayliss (born 1957, in Warwickshire, England) is a visual artist, glass sculptor, and Professor Emeritus of Art at Anderson University, known for his monumental public art installations situated at various locations across Indiana, as well as for his studio glass and factory art glass represented in European art museum collections. Bayliss has designed glass art series for established brandnames such as Rosenthal, Steuben, Blenko and EOS Murano.