I Go Way Beyond Just The Wood

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.

As With All My Work, Whether It's A Leaf On A Rock Or Ice On A Rock, I'm Trying To Get Beneath The Surface Appearance Of Things. Working The Surface Of A Stone Is An Attempt To Understand The Internal Energy Of The Stone.

Winter Makes A Bridge Between One Year And Another And, In This Case, One Century And The Next.

I'm Very Fortunate To Be Able To Do What I Do And Live The Way I Do.

For Me Looking, Touching, Material, Place And Form Are All Inseparable From The Resulting Work. It Is Difficult To Say Where One Stops And Another Begins. Place Is Found By Walking, Direction Determined By Weather And Season. I Take The Opportunity Each Day Offers: If It Is Snowing, I Work In Snow, At Leaf-fall It Will Be Leaves; A Blown Over Tree Becomes A Source Of Twigs And Branches.