Felled and Ashes

​Felled, Ashes, and Green Shoots form a suite of large charcoal drawings, using the theme of forestry and fire to explore our changing relationship to our planet. They were made using unprocessed charcoal from a garden bonfire. I began by rubbing the dust and unevenly burnt charcoal fragments over half of the paper and from these ‘organic’ marks discovered the remains of roots and branches.