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

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.

The process of growth is obviously critical to my understanding of the land and myself. So the process is far more unpredictable with far more compromises with the day, the weather, the material.

At its most successful, my 'touch' looks into the heart of nature; most days I don't even get close. These things are all part of a transient process that I cannot understand unless my touch is also transient - only in this way can the cycle remain unbroken and the process be complete.

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

Some of the snowballs have a kind of animal energy. Not just because of the materials inside them, but in the way that they appear caged, captured.