Andy Goldsworthy, born in 1956 in Cheshire and brought up in Yorkshire, is a British sculptor, environmentalist and photographer living in Scotland who produces site-specific sculpture and land art situated in natural and urban settings. His art involves the use of natural and found objects to create both temporary and permanent sculptures which draw out the character of their environment.

Carefully broken pebbles scratched white with another stone St. Abbs, Scotland 1 June 1985

His materials often include twigs, thorns, stone, mud, snow, icicles, brightly- coloured flowers, pinecones and leaves. He is generally considered the founder of modern rock balancing. For his ephemeral works, Goldsworthy often uses only his bare hands, teeth, and found tools to prepare and arrange the materials.

Horse Chestnut tree torn hole, stitched around the edge with grass stalks, moving in the wind, Cambridge 1986

Green patch (elm) [Leaf patches edges made by finding leaves the same size tearing one in two spitting underneath and pressing flat onto one another] Middleton Woods, Yorkshire 7 Novemeber 1980

Dandelion circle on bluebells Brough, Cumbria 4 June 1985

Elm leaves Ilkley, Yorkshire September 1978

Plane leaf circle Finsbury Park, London November 1985