I'm not a performer, in that I don't like the public, but I work in that respect.

The early firings contained many stones.

My art is an attempt to reach beyond the surface appearance. I want to see growth in wood, time in stone, nature in a city, and I do not mean its parks but a deeper understanding that a city is nature too-the ground upon which it is built, the stone with which it is made.

It's just that when I work on someone else's land, it makes me aware of the social nature of that landscape.

Winter makes a bridge between one year and another and, in this case, one century and the next.

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

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.