I have six acres in front of my own house, which I very rarely work on. Most of the work occurs on farmers' fields around me. And I like the discipline of working on other people's land.

If I had to describe my work in one word, that word would be time.

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.

I did tests on small stones before collecting and committing myself to the larger ones.

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

You must have something new in a landscape as well as something old, something that's dying and something that's being born.

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