I did tests on small stones before collecting and committing myself to the larger ones.

Everything has the energy of its making inside it.

The photography is not the aim of the work; the articulation of the work through photography is another way of understanding what's going on and what's happening outside.

When I was at art school, a lot of art education is about art being a means of self-expression, and as an 18-year-old I didn't know if I had a huge amount I wanted to express. It was a big moment when I decided I wanted to shift the emphasis or the intention of my art from something I disgorged myself upon and something that actually fed me or made me see the world or understand the world.

We often forget that WE ARE NATURE. Nature is not something separate from us. So when we say that we have lost our connection to nature, we’ve lost our connection to ourselves.

I think that I'm always trying to get beyond the surface appearance of things, to go beyond what I can just see.

There is life in a stone. Any stone that sits in a field or lies on a beach takes on the memory of that place. You can feel that stones have witnessed so many things.