I want to get under the surface. When I work with a leaf, rock, stick, it is not just that material in itself, it is an opening into the processes of life within and around it. When I leave it, these processes continue.

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

If you repeat something, it can become pointless. Some things can repeat and be endlessly fascinating.

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.

Ephemeral work made outside, for and about a day, lies at the core of my art and its making must be kept private.

Looking, touching, material, place and form are all inseparable from the resulting work. It is difficult to say where one stops and another begins. The energy and space around a material are as important as the energy and space within. The weather--rain, sun, snow, hail, mist, calm--is that external space made visible. When I touch a rock, I am touching and working the space around it. It is not independent of its surroundings, and the way it sits tells how it came to be there.

I enjoy working in a quiet and subversive way.