Movement, change, light, growth and decay are the lifeblood of nature, the energies that I I try to tap through my work. I need the shock of touch, the resistance of place, materials and weather, the earth as my source. Nature is in a state of change and that change is the key to understanding. I want my art to be sensitive and alert to changes in material, season and weather. Each work grows, stays, decays. Process and decay are implicit. Transience in my work reflects what I find in nature.

The early firings contained many stones.

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

People are the nature of the city, and you can feel it in the pavement.

Photography is a way of putting distance between myself and the work which sometimes helps me to see more clearly what it is that I have made.

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

I can't edit the materials I work with. My remit is to work with nature as a whole. I find nature as a whole disturbing. Nature can be harsh – difficult and brutal, as well as beautiful. You couldn't walk five minutes from here without coming across something that is dead or decaying.