The clock has undergone essential restoration work and is back in full working order as of 12 May 2017.
Catching one of these bubbles entitles you to make a wish, hence the name of the clock. Hanging from the base of the clock is a large wooden fish that blows bubbles every half-hour. More than 45 feet tall, the clock features a duck that lays a never-ending stream of golden eggs and includes a family of mice that are continually trying to evade a snake sitting on top of the clock. In 1985 Kit Williams designed the Wishing Fish Clock, a centrepiece of the Regent Arcade shopping centre in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England. This competition ran for just a year and a day, and the winner was revealed on the live BBC TV chatshow Wogan. The book was initially published without a visible title, and readers were challenged to work out the title from clues inside the book and send in their answer without using the written word. Past work Īs well as his best-known book, Masquerade, Williams wrote The Bee on the Comb, a puzzle book with a bee theme. Using marquetry, he has always made his own frames which enables him to make pictures of any shape and allow elements of the picture to continue into the frame in often intricate detail. Williams likes to maintain complete control of every aspect of his artwork including making the clothes worn by the models, creating sets and props, and often making mechanisms either within the frame or the painting that reveal moving elements of the artwork and encourage interaction by the viewer. He then uses many layers of opaque and transparent Dutch oil paint to create luminous images.
Kit Williams now primarily works as a figurative painter in which he uses traditional oil-painting techniques, fashioning first a wooden panel covered in linen and oil gesso. Williams published three other books and was commissioned to create three public clocks with elaborate mechanisms and moving parts, such as animals, for visual interest.īorn in Kent, England, Williams continues to paint figurative art at his studio in Gloucestershire. Christopher Williams (born 28 April 1946) is an English artist, illustrator and author best known for his 1979 book Masquerade, a pictorial storybook which contains clues to the location of a golden (18 carat) jewelled hare created by Williams and then buried "somewhere in Britain".
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