Into the woods: David Nash at Yorkshire Sculpture Park

David Nash poses next to his work, Rough Elm Sphere, at Longside Gallery, Yorkshire Sculpture Park Photograph: Jonty Wilde/PR Photograph: Jonty Wilde/guardian.co.uk He adds some final touches to the work Photograph: Jonty Wilde/PR Photograph: Jonty Wilde/guardian.co.uk Red Dome 'Like densely packed dead man's fingers,' says Annie Proulx in her review Photograph: Jonty Wilde/PR Photograph: Jonty Wilde/guardian.co.uk A collection of woody works in the park's Underground Gallery Photograph: Yorkshire Sculpture Park Photograph: guardian.co.uk Oculus Block The work 'suggests a mighty torso that has just sucked in a tremendous draft of air', says Proulx Photograph: Jonty Wilde/PR Photograph: Jonty Wilde/guardian.co.uk Nine Cracked Balls (1970) Photograph: Jonty Wilde/PR Photograph: Jonty Wilde/guardian.co.uk Trunk and Butt Two of Nash's carbonised works – what he terms 'black, heavy and fine' Photograph: Jonty Wilde/PR Photograph: Jonty Wilde/guardian.co.uk Ash Dome (planted in 1977) Photograph: Yorkshire Sculpture Park Photograph: guardian.co.uk Black Steps 'Nash opens the door to the world of the sentient forest,' writes Proulx Photograph: Jonty Wilde/PR Photograph: Jonty Wilde/guardian.co.uk He hacks, he saws, he scorches ... Nash carving in Blaenau Ffestiniog, Wales Photograph: Jonty Wilde/PR Photograph: Jonty Wilde/guardian.co.uk Red Column (detail) Nash uses raw, untreated wood – the better to split, warp and decay over time – and carves it with vertical, horizontal and diagonal cuts Photograph: Yorkshire Sculpture Park Photograph: guardian.co.uk Capel Rhiw in Wales, a disused chapel that Nash bought, age 23, and turned into his studio Photograph: David Nash Photograph: guardian.co.uk