The main source of my income is through the commissions of the large-scale works and big sculptures, the projects.

Even in winter an isolated patch of snow has a special quality.

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.

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.

Snow provokes responses that reach right back to childhood.

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.

If you lay in the rain, every rain shower, storm, whatever, is different. Every surface is different.