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It’s surprising how quick it can regenerate if left to get on with it , that’s works for native species as well , once the stronger invasive plants are removed. Two months before lockdown we sent three week brush cutting and clearing a overgrown grass chalk land area , it was another eighteen months before we went back and it looked like we had never been there before. Ash is very quick to take advantage of a area and will soon dominates the landscape and taking out the nutrients that we want us for the natural plants that are rare in the area , juniper is one that has suffered on the grass areas of Pulpit Hill due to ash, brambles, blackthorn and other invasive plants.
Completed a bit more not far from finished, need a bit of work on the grass bank on the right and a look at anything that needs tweeting.
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Thank you Alan , it’s very much in keeping with the woodland as it appears, in fact its probably much brighter bronze looking but I’m working from memory and a pencil sketch thst I failed to make notes on the back of.
Still it’s a painting and my interpretation not a photograph of the scene, artistic license and all that .
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The painting is complete and on the gallery, I have stretched out the next in the series it’s set in the early spring and up on the hill top . The hill has quiet a few mounds o it apart from the remaining wall structures of the old hillfort , it covered with old beech trees that have competed for the sunlight a and very tall with huge umbrellas canopy’s . It gets very warm under the canopy in spring even though the leaves are still opening not in full cover yet , in summer it’s like air conditioning under there , very often in the spring there is a mist . It’s a strange light almost blue grey and lots of people f if it very spooky , some won’t walk alone , I loved it as you felt secure and isolated , once I was working in the deepest part between the in and out wall snd felt I was being watched very strong feeling but not scary . I looked up and four feet above me and about six foot away was a very large red deer stag , I thought I was illustrating as there are not red deer herd around .It’s was real and we looked at each other for what seemed like ages , I did speak lowly to him and he just watch , the suddenly nodded his head snorted and disappeared so fast it was like magic. Later discovered he had jumped out of the enclosure of the deer farm about a mile away , they never recovered him . Here is the sketch for the next one it will be set in the mist but not include a stag .
