I Enjoy Working In A Quiet And

The Main Reason I Went To Digital Was Because I Got Time-lapse, Video, And Still Images All In One Camera. Having A Minimal Amount Of Gear Is Really Important For Someone Who Wants To Walk Around. That Allowed Me To Have This Flexibility To Document Things In Different Ways.

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 Shown Enormous Tolerance Of Me And Interest In What I Do. I Mean, They Don't Necessarily Understand What I'm Doing All The Time. But They, You Know, I Think They Respect What I Do And That There Is A Connection Between What They Do With The Land And What I Do, You Know, That We're Both Dependent On Weather And Respond To That.

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.

There's A Huge Number Of Things That Are Occurring With The Ice Works Which Fascinate Me Enormously, But It's Driven By This Kind Of Frantic Race Against Time. And Whilst That Creates A Huge Amount Of Tension And Problems, It's A Tension That I Think I Feed Off.

Design Implies A Sense Of Mapping Something Out And Then You Follow The Plan.