After The Fire - Cannock Chase

Watercolour 18.5cm x 27cm - unframed
 
Watercolour of a scene after fires broke out in the Spring of 2020. I visited a couple of days after it happened on a glorious sunny day. There was no fire or smoke but the smell of burning was still in the air and the ground was covered in ash.
The scene captures the grey ashes after the fire and hints of burning on the foliage but the hot early summer sun catches the birch tree beautifully. I expect that the ground cover will have grown back through now and the wildlife will have returned