Occasionally I have come across a last patch of snow on top of a mountain in late May or June. There's something very powerful about finding snow in ….

If you've ever come across a tree that you've lived with for many years and then one day it's blown over, there's incredible shock and violence about….

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..

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 be….

Not being able to touch is sometimes as interesting as being able to touch..

We often forget that we are nature..

When I do the permanent projects or the big projects, when a work is finished, that's the beginning of its life..

I take the opportunity each day offers..

The reason why the stone is red is its iron content, which is also why our blood is red..

A stone is ingrained with geological and historical memories..

I can't edit the materials I work with. My remit is to work with nature as a whole. I find nature as a whole disturbing. Nature can be harsh – diffic….

My approach to photograph is kept simple, almost routine. All work, good and bad, is documented. I use standard film, a standard lens and no filters.….

I see my work plagiarized in gardening programmes and decorating programmes and car adverts, and I suppose I have to accept that's just the way art g….

We leave our presence in the pavement. We're walking over it, sitting on steps..

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

I knew the tree when it grew, and the tree is now gone. The farmers cut it up, and it's become firewood. And there's this tremendous sense of absence….

I'm an artist living in a small, Scottish village. So one would expect to be treated with some sort of caution. And the village and the farmers have ….

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

The things that I make are that which a person will make. They're not meant to mimic nature. They are nothing but the result of a hand of a person..

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