I'm very fortunate to be able to do what I do and live the way I do.

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.

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

I think I have been fashioned by the fickle weather of Britain that it is - it's forever changing. There's no kind of constant sun or dry weather or freezing weather, and I'm always having to change and adapt to that.

A snowball is simple, direct and familiar to most of us. I use this simplicity as a container for feelings and ideas that function on many levels.

I take the opportunity each day offers.

If you've ever come across a tree that you've lived with for many years and then one day it's blown over, there's incredible shock and violence about that.