ARTIST IN RESIDENCE AT RAHOY HILLS RESERVE

Scotland Outdoors

BBC

Nature, Society & Culture, Science

4.7 • 709 Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2024

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Rachel Stewart speaks to Artist in Residence Liz Myhill. The landscape and wildlife artist has been creating pieces based on her time at the Rahoy Hills Reserve in the Morven peninsula. It is managed by the Scottish Wildlife Trust and is widely regarded as being a unique and wild place. Her role is to raise awareness of the huge reserve and encourage people to visit and explore. She has spent several weeks on location, experiencing the different seasons and hopes her artwork will reflect the rich diversity of plant and animal life which can be found there. During her residency, she has been assisted by Steve Hardy who has been the ranger at the site for more than twenty years. His recordings of nature captured at Rahoy feature in the podcast.

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0:44.3	It's a place that's really abundant.
0:52.5	It's lush, it's green. There's so much life here and so much to be seen
0:58.8	whether it's things that you're down almost on hands and knees looking at tiny little
1:05.3	microscopic creatures in the grass and insect or whether it's the vast kind of open landscape scale.
1:13.4	That's how it makes me feel a place to explore.
1:17.5	That's Scottish landscape and wildlife artist Liz Myhill,
1:21.6	talking about the remote and rather beautiful Rojoy Hills Nature Reserve on the Morven Peninsula.
1:28.6	Now she's actually been doing a fair bit of exploring there in recent months as Liz is the
1:34.2	official artist in residence. I'm Rachel Stewart and recently I was lucky enough to spend a bit of
1:41.0	time with her basically just to observe her as she worked. And we started
1:46.2	by heading up one of the main tracks through the ancient woodland, looking for inspiration.
1:57.1	What kind of thing are you looking for today? I'm never entirely sure of what I'm looking for.
2:03.6	It's normally just whatever happens to jump out in the moment.
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