He is a painter and craftsman and has had several one-man shows.
He lives in Richmond, California. Steve was the first Featured Artist on the
Richmond Arts and Culture Commission website and was featured in an article in West
County Times newspaper. One of his clocks was presented to Magic Johnson by the city
of Richmond as a thank you gift. A commissioned clock was presented to, then,
outgoing Mayor Rosemary Corbin. He is a former Commissioner for the Richmond Arts
and Culture Commission, and is currently on the board at Richmond Art Center.
His mother was a big influence in his life. She would often
bring things home from work for him, including Architectural
Digest magazines, art books, things of beauty to just have
and look at, or interesting things she knew he could be creative
with. He began making clocks just on a whim in 1990. He wondered
why there were no interesting designs for clocks that really
looked good in modern homes. He remembers when clocks were
statement pieces and recalls when clocks began to look mediocre
with the onset of digital clocks. For homes, clocks were reduced
to ugly, woodgrain-clad clock radios, and put on coffee makers,
microwave ovens and vcrs. Some of the most exquisite places
Steve visited had, as an afterthought, if at all, cheap, unattractive
clocks. In a world where time is so important, why shouldn't
a timekeeper be prominent and a thing of beauty?
In 1991, Steve introduced his first series of clocks. He has cultivated a unique
niche of out-of-the-ordinary designs that run the gamut from simple geometric to
complex shapes using several layers and an astonishing array of textures and
finishes. A lot of the materials used rescued from trash bins, such as pieces of
shaped wood that once formed molds for casting of industrial machines and parts.
In the hands of Steve Hurst, they come together in the wondrous forms of
Time-Telling Art.
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