The Essence Of Drawing Is The Line

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.

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 Process Of Growth Is Obviously Critical To My Understanding Of The Land And Myself. So The Process Is Far More Unpredictable With Far More Compromises With The Day, The Weather, The Material.

My Art Recognizes The Human Place, The Human Context - Especially In Britain, Which Is A Landscape So Worked By People For Thousands Of Years, Written, Deeply Ingrained With The Presence Of People.

Once The Fired Stone Is Out Of The Kiln, It Is Still Possible To Mentally Reconstruct It In Its Original Form.