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

People also leave presence in a place even when they are no longer there.

I go way beyond just the wood and stone but to the process of growth and farming and the tensions between the two.

I have worked with this red all over the world - in Japan, California, France, Britain, Australia - a vein running round the earth. It has taught me about the flow, energy and life that connects one place with another.

I'm very fortunate to be able to do what I do and live the way I do.

We often forget that WE ARE NATURE. Nature is not something separate from us. So when we say that we have lost our connection to nature, we’ve lost our connection to ourselves.

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.