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

Time gives growth, it gives continuity and it gives change. And in the case of some sculptures, time gives a patina to them.

People do not realise that many of my works are done in urban places. I was brought up on the edge of Leeds, five miles from the city centre-on one side were fields and on the other, the city.

The first snowball I froze was put in my mother's deep freeze when I was in my early 20s.

The early firings contained many stones.

Confrontation is something that I accept as part of the project though not its purpose.

The reason why the stone is red is its iron content, which is also why our blood is red.