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Scotland Outdoors

Drawing Ancient Trees with Tansy Lee Moir

Scotland Outdoors

BBC

Nature, Society & Culture, Science

4.7756 Ratings

🗓️ 7 January 2026

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Mark Stephen goes out sketching old trees at Haddo with artist Tansy Lee Moir

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:05.7

Hello, you're about to listen to a BBC podcast, and I'm Ed Gamble, host of another BBC podcast, The Traitors Uncloaked.

0:12.7

But my show is available only on BBC Sounds, just like Ellis and John's Saturday bonus episodes,

0:18.2

The Pop Top Ten podcast with Scott Mills and Rylan, and comedy specials

0:22.2

from the likes of Harriet Kemsley, Susie Ruffel and Rommashranganathan.

0:26.0

However, and maybe I'm biased, it's really all about the traitors uncoaked.

0:30.3

So for a whole bunch of exclusive scoops and podcasts, listen only on BBC Sounds.

0:36.0

This Scotland Outdoors podcast from BBC Radio Scotland.

0:45.7

I heard that you like to see things that in people's boots.

0:49.4

So...

0:50.6

It's not so much what I like.

0:52.0

It just seems to happen a lot.

0:53.2

That's all.

0:53.6

Well, I thought I'd bring you something as well. It's just show you from my boot too. So this is my full drawing kit. So I've got some, a larger drawing board, some larger paper. And I've also got a few sketchbooks. Sketchbooks kind of like the inside of your head. You know, it's like all the ideas, the things that might work.

1:12.2

This is an older, and this is the sort of idea that I'm working on at the moment.

1:17.4

That's Tansy Lee Moyer, who, as you probably gathered, is an artist.

1:21.8

Now, Tansy's main subject is old trees, but they're old and some of them are actually dead

1:27.1

and dying, but she really brings

1:28.6

them to life. They've got real character. Tansy travels the country seeking out old, characterful

1:34.6

specimens and capturing them on paper. Now recently, she got in touch with the program to say that

1:39.1

she was going to be in Aberdeenshire, so I genuinely jumped at the chance to go and meet her at

1:43.4

Haddo House to learn more about what motivates her, And to be honest, I have a go at drawing myself.

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