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

Beauty is what sustains things, although beauty is underwritten by pain and fear..

Stones are checked every so often to see if any have split or at worst exploded. An explosion can leave debris in the elements so the firing has to b….

Nature, for me is raw and dangerous and difficult and beautiful and unnerving..

When I make a work, I often take it to the very edge of its collapse, and that's a very beautiful balance..

If I had to describe my work in one word, that word would be time..

In contact with materials, I can see so much more with my hands than I can just with my eyes. I'm a participant, not a spectator. I see myself both a….

Complete control can be the death of a work..

Generally in New York, people just walk over you with no problem about that. Other countries, people want to resuscitate you, like, after a bit..

It's art that's taught me to think and to write..

My work comes first, reasons for it follow..

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..

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 par….

I did tests on small stones before collecting and committing myself to the larger ones..

Once the fired stone is out of the kiln, it is still possible to mentally reconstruct it in its original form..

I'm cautious about using fire. It can become theatrical. I am interested in the heat, not the flames..

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 witnesse….

People do not realise that many of my works are done in urban places. I was brought up on the edge of Leeds, five miles from the city centre-on one s….

Movement, change, light, growth, and decay are the life-blood of nature, the energies that I try to tap through my work..

As you grow older you realize that art has an enormous effect. It's frightening sometimes to think of the effect that we can have..

The underlying tension of a lot of my art is to try and look through the surface appearance of things. Inevitably, one way of getting beneath the sur….