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Mosaics From The Ford
Mosaic art clocks
I love making art clocks. They can tick and they can tock through tumultuous times or silently saunter through soundless streets. Enjoy!
The morning sun lifts above the horizon like a deep red yawn, its rays bursting out across the slowly lightening sky expressing that first stretch of the day. The tree appears black against the sun’s rising presence and the hill is awash with shifting greens. ‘Morning sun/awakening tree’ was a commission baced on an earlier design ‘The Sunrise Clock’. Size: 30cm
This clock proved to be the first in a series of clocks in this range.
The centrepiece image of the bird originated from a photo I took of a pair of jackdaws sat on a fence next to where I was standing. They stayed there while I took the photo and so I reimagined what a jackdaw might wear to a party and used that as the image for the clock. A flight of fancy? Maybe… but we all need to let our imaginations fly sometimes.
Size: 25cm
The second clock in the ‘Bird of Time’ series, this clock was commission. At 30cm, it was slightly larger than the original and featured a full tail plus a border, while the bird’s body was a different shade of red.
The Sunrise Clock is made from sheets of stained glass and a painted wooden tree. The silent mechanism moves the hands gently around the face. With the changing light of the day the reflections from the irridescent surfaces play and interact with the light, creating changing perspectives.
A simple ungrouted, art deco design, Simple Time in Blue has accompanied my wife in her office for many years.
Marking Time was a commission and was made as a wedding present. It features a working presentation of a grandfather clock. The whole piece is presented as a wall-hanging art piece celebrating the couple’s wedding. The ‘picture’ hanging on the wall above the flowers allowed the couple to place a photo in the picture frame (covered for the sake of this photo). The umbrella leaning against the grandfather clock is for those inevitable rainy days. Their wedding date runs along the bottom of the picture.
Mosaics from The Ford 