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

Nature, for me is raw and dangerous and difficult and beautiful and unnerving.

The main source of my income is through the commissions of the large-scale works and big sculptures, the projects.

Art for me is a form of nourishment. I need the land. I need it.

One of the beauties of art is that it reflects an artist's entire life. What I've learned over the past 30 years is really beginning to inform what I make. I hope that process continues until I die.

I can't edit the materials I work with. My remit is to work with nature as a whole.

If you've ever come across a tree that you've lived with for many years and then one day it's blown over, there's incredible shock and violence about that.