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.

My art recognizes the human place, the human context - especially in Britain, which is a landscape so worked by people for thousands of years, written, deeply ingrained with the presence of people.

I take the opportunity each day offers.

Complete control can be the death of a work.

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

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.

Sometimes you need to stop doing something to really see it afresh.