Today, as I sat quietly in the gallery waiting for visitors to arrive, I happened to look up — and there it was, the answer to a question I’d never really asked myself.
Just outside my window stands Deal’s Time Ball Tower, its distinctive black sphere still dropping every day at precisely 1pm, just as it has since 1855. The mechanism once helped ships at sea set their chronometers to Greenwich Mean Time — a simple, perfect act of alignment between sea, sky, and the human measure of time.
It made me smile to realise how deeply that same form — the sphere — runs through my own work. So many of my sculptures in the Celestial Ancestors series explore that circular balance: the pull between gravity and light, the rhythm of the tides, the quiet precision of the natural world.
Each sphere I create is built from river-worn stones, semi-precious crystals, and rose-gold highlights, layered and polished into forms that feel both ancient and newly unearthed. They’re, in a way, my own timekeepers — relics of movement, memory, and transformation.
So perhaps the Time Ball Tower and I are connected by something beyond proximity: a shared fascination with balance, rhythm, and the passage of time.
And of course…
✨ One clever collector should snap up my black sphere before it drops! ✨
Celestial Ancestors is now showing at:
📍 Stephanie Fuller Gallery, Upstairs at The Walmer Castle Pub, 4 South Street, Deal
🕒 Fridays 2–5pm | Saturdays 12–5pm