Snow provokes responses that reach right back to childhood.

Fire is the origin of stone.By working the stone with heat, I am returning it to its source.

I enjoy working in a quiet and subversive way.

People do not realise that many of my works are done in urban places. I was brought up on the edge of Leeds, five miles from the city centre-on one side were fields and on the other, the city.

There are occasions when I have moved boulders, but I'm reluctant to, especially ones that have been rooted in a place for many years.

The difference between a theatre with and without an audience is enormous. There is a palpable, critical energy created by the presence of the audience.

Abandoning the project was incredibly stressful after having gone through the process of building the room, installing the kiln, collecting the stones, sitting with the kiln day and night as it came to temperature, experiencing the failures.