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Surreal clocks & Art Nouveau
About the Artist continued.........

Following graduation and a brief period working freelance as a prototype sculptor/pattern maker for a London toy design company, I realised true joy lay in painting and sculpting for myself. In 1995 I started my Baroque Designs sculpture range, designing and manufacturing curios for the home giftware market - mirror frames, clocks, candelabras, plaques, mythical creatures and dragons. All the designs were infused with Art Nouveau and Gothic inspired styles. Some of the subjects touched areas of Pagan Goddess and Green Man symbolism, others into the mythos of H.P. Lovecraft.

For over 20 years, I've nurtured an obsession for painting Fantasy and Surreal subjects, an output that some choose to label as Darkart.

Along with the allure of artists such as the Pre-Raphaelites, Zdzislaw Beksinski, and many of the Visionaries to be found at www.artofimagination.org, it is surrealist Salvador Dali who deeply massages my minds creative lava. When I started designing my range of distorted soft clocks, I needed a source to convey my feelings on the abstract transient nature of time and memory. I sought to broaden the aesthetic theme of Dalis soft fob watches from one of the 20th Centuries most iconic images 'The Persistence of Memory'. My range of warped timepieces have provided a scintillating avenue of sculptural forms, one piece triggering the next. The Timewarp clocks are a rich vein that I'll continue to tap, until a saturation of ideas overloads the shelves storing moulds in my workshop!

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