We often forget that we are nature.

Time gives growth, it gives continuity and it gives change. And in the case of some sculptures, time gives a patina to them.

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.

If I had to describe my work in one word, that word would be time.

Stones are checked every so often to see if any have split or at worst exploded. An explosion can leave debris in the elements so the firing has to be abandoned.

I enjoy working in a quiet and subversive way.

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