Nature, For Me Is Raw

The Reason Why The Stone Is Red Is Its Iron Content, Which Is Also Why Our Blood Is Red.

You Must Have Something New In A Landscape As Well As Something Old, Something That's Dying And Something That's Being Born.

Photography Is A Way Of Putting Distance Between Myself And The Work Which Sometimes Helps Me To See More Clearly What It Is That I Have Made.

I Soon Realised That What Had Happened On A Small Scale Cannot Necessarily Be Repeated On A Larger Scale. The Stones Were So Big That The Amount Of Heat Required Was Prohibitively Expensive And Wasteful.

As With All My Work, Whether It's A Leaf On A Rock Or Ice On A Rock, I'm Trying To Get Beneath The Surface Appearance Of Things. Working The Surface Of A Stone Is An Attempt To Understand The Internal Energy Of The Stone.