Living and working in the Far Northern Highlands of Scotland for the past forty years, I have come to the realization that my work has an identity with nature, a belonging with nature, whether in a small garden or in a vast landscape or just between plants in a window box. My creative process involves a close, continuing and intense relationship with the landscape and wilderness of the Scottish Highlands, a part of which is long hikes into the mountains, bringing back materials such as rocks and sediments to incorporate into my work.