My sculpture can last for days or a few seconds — what is important to me is the experience of making. I leave all my work outside and often return t… - Andy Goldsworthy

I find some of my new works disturbing, just as I find nature as a whole disturbing. The landscape is often perceived as pastoral, pretty, beautiful – something to be enjoyed as a backdrop to your weekend before going back to the nitty-gritty of urban life. But anybody who works the land knows it's not like that. Nature can be harsh – difficult and brutal, as well as beautiful. You couldn't walk five minutes from here without coming across something that is dead or decaying.

Ephemeral work made outside, for and about a day, lies at the core of my art and its making must be kept private.

Movement, change, light, growth, and decay are the life-blood of nature, the energies that I try to tap through my work.