Paul Mason created two stone works during his 1981 residency at Grizedale. I'm not entirely sure whereabouts he placed his elaborately-named piece 'Slate, Straddled and Splayed', but in 'A Sense Of Place' he spoke fondly of his time in the forest and explained how the environment forced him to alter his working methods, before going on to say:

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"This fracturing of approaches in my own case has led to a more enjoyable activity, and conversely more positive and direct execution, indeed recent work based on leaf forms (a direct response to the shape of a leaf) would not have been immediately possible working within the forest - it is only now that responses are filtering through. Perhaps that is the real legacy, not the temporary or permanent external evidence sited at some point within the landscape, but the internal resource which has to be found in some acutely specific way at the time, and which is inevitably recurring since.

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Also by this artist:

Up One Two Three 1981