A snowball is simple, direct and familiar to most of us. I use this simplicity as a container for feelings and ideas that function on many levels..

My art recognizes the human place, the human context - especially in Britain, which is a landscape so worked by people for thousands of years, writte….

Time confined into blind caves or extended through tunnels, responds to the call of infinity, which teases with its promise of freedom. outside the b….

Art is not a career - it's a life..

I just see myself as an object in the final image. I know I'm experiencing it when I'm there working on it. I'm there to be worked with, as anything ….

At its most successful, my 'touch' looks into the heart of nature; most days I don't even get close. These things are all part of a transient process….

I've laid down in dried up streambeds, leaving a shadow. And then, five minutes later, it's flash flooded, and where I once laid is now running water….

Some of the snowballs have a kind of animal energy. Not just because of the materials inside them, but in the way that they appear caged, captured..

Sometimes you need to stop doing something to really see it afresh..

The first snowball I froze was put in my mother's deep freeze when I was in my early 20s..

I go way beyond just the wood and stone but to the process of growth and farming and the tensions between the two..

Ideas must be put to the test. That's why we make things; otherwise they would be no more than ideas. There is often a huge difference between an ide….

Confrontation is something that I accept as part of the project though not its purpose..

The difference between a theatre with and without an audience is enormous. There is a palpable, critical energy created by the presence of the audien….

I have six acres in front of my own house, which I very rarely work on. Most of the work occurs on farmers' fields around me. And I like the discipli….

It's frightening and unnerving to watch a stone melt..

I think that I'm always trying to get beyond the surface appearance of things, to go beyond what I can just see..

The relationship between the public and the artist is complex and difficult to explain. There is a fine line between using this critical energy creat….

I can't edit the materials I work with. My remit is to work with nature as a whole..

Art for me is a form of nourishment. I need the land. I need it..

The stones tear like flesh, rather than breaking. Although what happens is violent, it is a violence that is in stone. A tear is more unnerving than ….