Nature, For Me Is Raw And Dangerous

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.

Movement, Change, Light, Growth And Decay Are The Lifeblood Of Nature, The Energies That I I Try To Tap Through My Work. I Need The Shock Of Touch, The Resistance Of Place, Materials And Weather, The Earth As My Source. Nature Is In A State Of Change And That Change Is The Key To Understanding. I Want My Art To Be Sensitive And Alert To Changes In Material, Season And Weather. Each Work Grows, Stays, Decays. Process And Decay Are Implicit. Transience In My Work Reflects What I Find In Nature.

Complete Control Can Be The Death Of A Work.

When It Does Get Below Freezing And There Is - It's Cold Enough For Ice To Form, Then That Changes The Whole Landscape, And It Makes The Landscape A Different Landscape To The One That I Worked With Previously. And I Want To Understand That. But The Big Tension Of The Ice Works Is That They're Often Made When It's Cold Enough To Freeze One Piece Of Ice To Another.

Ephemeral Work Made Outside, For And About A Day, Lies At The Core Of My Art And Its Making Must Be Kept Private.