"The hardest thing for me is to get some of my stuff into a studio". Marc Bergerman does not take himself too seriously but his subject - the environment - is another matter. "It's ridiculous what we do to the planet now. Insustainable. A madness I think. But people know that yet still go on as if it was not the case".

Bergerman works predominantly outdoors. Huge trunks of fallen wood are carved into tortured shapes which depict "the twisting agony we are putting ourselves and our world too". A nightmarish vision of what might happen if the worst environmental predictions come true.

But there is a slighter side to his work too.

Rocks and stones were gathered together to form families of lost and rare animals. The European Lynx, the Bear and the Wolf have all featured. Even, at the behest of fellow artist Geoff Bunn, an "art-fish" called a Burbot! "I began carving the figures onto the stones but moved away into a more abstracted representation. It seemed to me that the more distant the time we lost these animals from our woods and forests. the dimmer the memory would be. The less we would be able to recall their features".

His most recent work depicted animals now extinct - wiped out by man - through a series of round totally featureless stones. "Each is set a distance apart. Representative of the years between each extinction. The nearer we get to the modern day, the closer the stones".