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

I just see myself as an object in the final image. I know I'm experiencing it when I'm there working on it. I'm there to be worked with, as anything else that I work with.

When I’m working with materials it’s not just the leaf or the stone, it’s the processes that are behind them that are important. That’s what I’m trying to understand, not a single isolated object but nature as a whole.

Art for me is a form of nourishment. I need the land. I need it.

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

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.

I'm cautious about using fire. It can become theatrical. I am interested in the heat, not the flames.