It Takes Between Three And Six Hours

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 Begins. Place Is Found By Walking, Direction Determined By Weather And Season. I Take The Opportunity Each Day Offers: If It Is Snowing, I Work In Snow, At Leaf-fall It Will Be Leaves; A Blown Over Tree Becomes A Source Of Twigs And Branches.

The Photography Is Not The Aim Of The Work; The Articulation Of The Work Through Photography Is Another Way Of Understanding What's Going On And What's Happening Outside.

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 That I Cannot Understand Unless My Touch Is Also Transient - Only In This Way Can The Cycle Remain Unbroken And The Process Be Complete.

I Enjoy Working In A Quiet And Subversive Way.

I Have Worked With This Red All Over The World - In Japan, California, France, Britain, Australia - A Vein Running Round The Earth. It Has Taught Me About The Flow, Energy And Life That Connects One Place With Another.