For me looking, touching, material, place and form are all inseparable from the resulting work. It is difficult to say where one stops and another begins. Place is found by walking, direction determined by weather and season. I take the opportunity each day offers: if it is snowing, I work in snow, at leaf-fall it will be leaves; a blown over tree becomes a source of twigs and branches.

The British climate, although it is very wet, it is quite mild in winter. We don't get these severe - generally don't get severe winters.

Once the fired stone is out of the kiln, it is still possible to mentally reconstruct it in its original form.

I'm cautious about using fire. It can become theatrical. I am interested in the heat, not the flames.

The main reason I went to digital was because I got time-lapse, video, and still images all in one camera. Having a minimal amount of gear is really important for someone who wants to walk around. That allowed me to have this flexibility to document things in different ways.

I think I have been fashioned by the fickle weather of Britain that it is - it's forever changing. There's no kind of constant sun or dry weather or freezing weather, and I'm always having to change and adapt to that.

You must have something new in a landscape as well as something old, something that's dying and something that's being born.