While my background is in design, painting and sculpture, I fell in love with clockmaking back in 2004 and have been creating clocks ever since. Once I machined my first gear from scratch, I was completely hooked by the process. Clockmaking has a long and rigorously ordered tradition, showcasing impressive precision and finish. As an artist, I’ve always found imperfection and asymmetry to be interesting, so I began experimenting with the rules of horology. My goal is to maintain mechanical precision, while making clocks that are visually sculptural and expressive, rather than polished and perfect.

To give the viewer a sense of time, I show a narrative of change and transformation. Wear and tear, rebirth and growth all contribute to a sense of time passing. In much of my work, there is a story of a clock that once-was, now overtaken by nature and becoming something new. Sometimes, the clock itself is shown as a growing, living entity with mechanized organs and a ticking heartbeat. These themes are reinforced by the cyclical movement of clockwork gears, echoing the metaphor of death and rebirth. Ticking mechanisms also have a sense of weight and deliberation that connect you to the movement of time - a connection that we’ve lost in the instantaneous timeframes of the digital age.

On a more personal note:

Every mechanical clock I make is very special to me. I try to bring a unique vision and different personality to each piece. I’d like them to not only function perfectly as clocks, but also serve as intriguing pieces of mechanical art. I can only make a few clocks a year, so there is a finite number of designs that I’m capable of producing in my life. There are methods to make things faster and state-of-the-art machines that could make duplicates, but the quality would suffer greatly, and the “human feel” would disappear. And so I slowly and patiently work away, so that I can realize as many of my ideas as possible. With each new piece, I’m in a creative place that I could never return to again - an ephemeral process, captured in a machine that will last forever. It’s a very personal experience for me, and my hope is that the care and commitment is evident, and that it’s an equally personal experience for those who choose to display one of my clocks in their home.