The things that I make are that which a person will make. They're not meant to mimic nature. They are nothing but the result of a hand of a person.

Even in winter an isolated patch of snow has a special quality.

I think that I'm always trying to get beyond the surface appearance of things, to go beyond what I can just see.

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.

My approach to photograph is kept simple, almost routine. All work, good and bad, is documented. I use standard film, a standard lens and no filters. Each work grows, strays, decays-integral parts of a cycle which the photograph shows at its height, marking the moment when the work is most alive. There is an intensity about a work at its peak that I hope is expresses in the image. Process and decay are implicit.

Complete control can be the death of a work.

I think that any sculpture is a response to its environment. It can be brought to life or put to sleep by the environment.