You must have something new in a landscape as well as something old, something that's dying and something that's being born.

There are occasions when I have moved boulders, but I'm reluctant to, especially ones that have been rooted in a place for many years.

The early firings contained many stones.

I enjoy working in a quiet and subversive way.

I want to get under the surface. When I work with a leaf, rock, stick, it is not just that material in itself, it is an opening into the processes of life within and around it. When I leave it, these processes continue.

The things that I make are that which a person will make. They're not meant to mimic nature. They are nothing but the result of a hand of a person.

The British climate, although it is very wet, it is quite mild in winter. We don't get these severe - generally don't get severe winters.