Famed land and installation artist  Andy Goldsworth  has often utilized ice, frost, snow and frozen earth to create his trademark land interventions. The processes and materials Andy Goldsworthy uses to explore his artworks are all natural features, (for example the photo shown below) he uses a variety of different nature features such as, ice, sticks, leaves, stones and etc.
For each piece that he is able to photograph, many others collapse half way through.

Andy Goldsworthy had spoken that the decay of his artwork is implicit, which it means it creates the meaning that the works he makes are ephemeral.

In a Zen-like approach, the artist spends hours cultivating moments of fleeting beauty: the mysterious shapes revealed as clay dries and cracks, the ethereal line formed by the sunlight hitting stretched wool at a certain angle, or the colors created by red-rock shavings splashing into a stream and dissolving.

These ephemeral sculptures marked the position of the North Pole and were built around it. In 1989, Andy Goldsworthy created four massive snow rings at one the most remote place on Planet Earth, the North Pole. Summary of Andy Goldsworthy. A sculptor and photographer, Andy Goldsworthy not only works with nature, but in nature. The ice sculpture mixes the preciousness of Goldsworthy’s similarly constructed arches made of stone with a definitive period of finishing time, brought with both the time needed for each individual slat of sculpture to melt and form with one another and the subsequent time with which the piece invariably melts overall. In his own words, "I have held ice to ice seemingly for ages waiting for it to freeze only to let go and see it drop off. Goldsworthy's site-specific sculptures are formed from twigs, rocks, ice, leaves, and flowers. The list of elements Goldsworthy has worked with includes ice, snow, mud, wind and the rising tide.

Andy Goldsworthy’s installed sculptures at the North Pole.

Goldsworthy's ice works showcase his resilience and patience. In the 1980s Goldsworthy worked often with snow and ice and created works such as Ice Arch (1982, in Brough, Cumbria ; 1985, in Hampstead Heath, London), Ice Ball (1985, Hampstead Heath, London), Ice Star (1987, Penpont, Dumfriesshire, Scotland), and Touching North (1989, North Pole).

In one piece, he used twigs to fashion a giant spider web hanging from a tree. And rather than avoiding the elements, Goldsworthy is only able to create these delicate and precise sculptures by embracing the cold.

Rather than building monumental constructions on or out of the land, Goldsworthy works almost telepathically with nature, rearranging its natural forms in such a way as to enhance rather than detract from their beauty.