My Work Comes First, Reasons For It

It Takes Between Three And Six Hours To Make Each Snowball, Depending On Snow Quality. Wet Snow Is Quick To Work With But Also Quick To Thaw, Which Can Lead To A Tense Journey To The Cold Store.

I See My Work Plagiarized In Gardening Programmes And Decorating Programmes And Car Adverts, And I Suppose I Have To Accept That's Just The Way Art Gets Assimilated Into Culture.

Time Gives Growth, It Gives Continuity And It Gives Change. And In The Case Of Some Sculptures, Time Gives A Patina To Them.

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

People Do Not Realise That Many Of My Works Are Done In Urban Places. I Was Brought Up On The Edge Of Leeds, Five Miles From The City Centre-on One Side Were Fields And On The Other, The City.