Art For Me Is A Form Of

We Often Forget That We Are Nature. Nature Is Not Something Separate From Us. So When We Say That We Have Lost Our Connection To Nature, We’ve Lost Our Connection To Ourselves.

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.

I Have To Understand The Nature Of Change. And I Cannot Just Work With Stone Or The More Permanent Materials. I Need To Work With Leaves And Ice And Snow And Mud And Clay And Water And The Rising Tide And The Wind And All These.

The First Snowball I Froze Was Put In My Mother's Deep Freeze When I Was In My Early 20s.

I Did Tests On Small Stones Before Collecting And Committing Myself To The Larger Ones.