Tansy Lee Moir
@tansyleemoir.bsky.social
Making art inspired by ancient trees. Creating light and movement in charcoal, pastel and oils. Teaching the magic of drawing.
Edinburgh
https://www.tansyleemoir.co.uk/links
Edinburgh
https://www.tansyleemoir.co.uk/links
‘Masquerade’
Charcoal on wood panel
110 x 70cm
Soon to be on the walls of Custom House Gallery, Leith in ‘More Than Human’ with Inês-Hermione Mulford, open 14th - 17th March.
Charcoal on wood panel
110 x 70cm
Soon to be on the walls of Custom House Gallery, Leith in ‘More Than Human’ with Inês-Hermione Mulford, open 14th - 17th March.
March 12, 2025 at 6:40 PM
‘Masquerade’
Charcoal on wood panel
110 x 70cm
Soon to be on the walls of Custom House Gallery, Leith in ‘More Than Human’ with Inês-Hermione Mulford, open 14th - 17th March.
Charcoal on wood panel
110 x 70cm
Soon to be on the walls of Custom House Gallery, Leith in ‘More Than Human’ with Inês-Hermione Mulford, open 14th - 17th March.
Here for you this #thicktrunktuesday is a truly huge beech in a Scottish bluebell woodland.
@treeshepherd.bsky.social
@treeshepherd.bsky.social
March 11, 2025 at 7:15 AM
Here for you this #thicktrunktuesday is a truly huge beech in a Scottish bluebell woodland.
@treeshepherd.bsky.social
@treeshepherd.bsky.social
My charcoal drawing ‘Apparition’ will be on show soon in ‘More Than Human’, a joint exhibition with Inês-Hermione Mulford, highlighting our connections and parallels with the natural, more than human world.
14th – 17th March, Custom House Gallery, Leith
Opening: Friday 14th 6–8pm
Talk: Sunday 2-3pm
14th – 17th March, Custom House Gallery, Leith
Opening: Friday 14th 6–8pm
Talk: Sunday 2-3pm
February 28, 2025 at 2:27 PM
My charcoal drawing ‘Apparition’ will be on show soon in ‘More Than Human’, a joint exhibition with Inês-Hermione Mulford, highlighting our connections and parallels with the natural, more than human world.
14th – 17th March, Custom House Gallery, Leith
Opening: Friday 14th 6–8pm
Talk: Sunday 2-3pm
14th – 17th March, Custom House Gallery, Leith
Opening: Friday 14th 6–8pm
Talk: Sunday 2-3pm
Time travel via tree rings
February 26, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Time travel via tree rings
Some trees seem to ooze energy and character, they stop me in my tracks. I draw the trees that make you say ‘wow’ out loud. This is one of them, a downy birch covered in witches’ brooms.
‘Bowsie’
Charcoal and conté on wood panel
30 x 30cm
Available now from Kilmorack Gallery, Beauly
‘Bowsie’
Charcoal and conté on wood panel
30 x 30cm
Available now from Kilmorack Gallery, Beauly
February 21, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Some trees seem to ooze energy and character, they stop me in my tracks. I draw the trees that make you say ‘wow’ out loud. This is one of them, a downy birch covered in witches’ brooms.
‘Bowsie’
Charcoal and conté on wood panel
30 x 30cm
Available now from Kilmorack Gallery, Beauly
‘Bowsie’
Charcoal and conté on wood panel
30 x 30cm
Available now from Kilmorack Gallery, Beauly
When we regard the natural world, we can’t help but see ourselves reflected back, seeing our faces in the clouds, our forms within the lines of trees.
‘More Than Human’, a joint exhibition with Inês-Hermione Mulford.
Custom House, Leith 14th–17th March
Opening event Friday 14th 6–8pm
‘More Than Human’, a joint exhibition with Inês-Hermione Mulford.
Custom House, Leith 14th–17th March
Opening event Friday 14th 6–8pm
February 19, 2025 at 5:59 PM
When we regard the natural world, we can’t help but see ourselves reflected back, seeing our faces in the clouds, our forms within the lines of trees.
‘More Than Human’, a joint exhibition with Inês-Hermione Mulford.
Custom House, Leith 14th–17th March
Opening event Friday 14th 6–8pm
‘More Than Human’, a joint exhibition with Inês-Hermione Mulford.
Custom House, Leith 14th–17th March
Opening event Friday 14th 6–8pm
Here for you this #thicktrunktuesday is a big beech tree with a powerful grip on the earth.
Scottish Borders
@treeshepherd.bsky.social @rainb47.bsky.social
Scottish Borders
@treeshepherd.bsky.social @rainb47.bsky.social
February 18, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Here for you this #thicktrunktuesday is a big beech tree with a powerful grip on the earth.
Scottish Borders
@treeshepherd.bsky.social @rainb47.bsky.social
Scottish Borders
@treeshepherd.bsky.social @rainb47.bsky.social
Coming soon…I have 3 small works in this members’ show.
Art & Nature Collective’s First AGM Exhibition
'The Nature of Art' ✎ Dates: 1st – 30th March 2025 📍Location: Green Gallery, Dundee Botanic Garden
🌟Opening Event: 1st March, 2–4 PM - you’re invited!
Art & Nature Collective’s First AGM Exhibition
'The Nature of Art' ✎ Dates: 1st – 30th March 2025 📍Location: Green Gallery, Dundee Botanic Garden
🌟Opening Event: 1st March, 2–4 PM - you’re invited!
February 15, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Coming soon…I have 3 small works in this members’ show.
Art & Nature Collective’s First AGM Exhibition
'The Nature of Art' ✎ Dates: 1st – 30th March 2025 📍Location: Green Gallery, Dundee Botanic Garden
🌟Opening Event: 1st March, 2–4 PM - you’re invited!
Art & Nature Collective’s First AGM Exhibition
'The Nature of Art' ✎ Dates: 1st – 30th March 2025 📍Location: Green Gallery, Dundee Botanic Garden
🌟Opening Event: 1st March, 2–4 PM - you’re invited!
Witch’s broom growths against a clear winter sky create an irresistible combination of delicate twigginess and diffuse fuzziness for this charcoal artist.
‘Knurlt’
Charcoal and conté on wood panel
30 x 30cm
Available now from Kilmorack Gallery
‘Knurlt’
Charcoal and conté on wood panel
30 x 30cm
Available now from Kilmorack Gallery
February 12, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Witch’s broom growths against a clear winter sky create an irresistible combination of delicate twigginess and diffuse fuzziness for this charcoal artist.
‘Knurlt’
Charcoal and conté on wood panel
30 x 30cm
Available now from Kilmorack Gallery
‘Knurlt’
Charcoal and conté on wood panel
30 x 30cm
Available now from Kilmorack Gallery
Here for you this #thicktrunktuesday is a Scots pine thriving on a beach of glacial sands.
@treeshepherd.bsky.social @rainb47.bsky.social
@treeshepherd.bsky.social @rainb47.bsky.social
February 11, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Here for you this #thicktrunktuesday is a Scots pine thriving on a beach of glacial sands.
@treeshepherd.bsky.social @rainb47.bsky.social
@treeshepherd.bsky.social @rainb47.bsky.social
I can’t really say why I made this drawing, why I saw the trees in this way, only that it was a ghost I needed to make visible.
‘Leaning into shadows’
Charcoal on canvas
110 x 70cm
‘Leaning into shadows’
Charcoal on canvas
110 x 70cm
February 10, 2025 at 6:57 PM
I can’t really say why I made this drawing, why I saw the trees in this way, only that it was a ghost I needed to make visible.
‘Leaning into shadows’
Charcoal on canvas
110 x 70cm
‘Leaning into shadows’
Charcoal on canvas
110 x 70cm
My drawing wand in action today - it’s one of my favourite tools, which I made from a nice dry hogweed stem picked last autumn. It’s surprisingly strong, feels light and responsive and has a hollow centre perfect to poke a bit of charcoal into.
February 6, 2025 at 7:08 PM
My drawing wand in action today - it’s one of my favourite tools, which I made from a nice dry hogweed stem picked last autumn. It’s surprisingly strong, feels light and responsive and has a hollow centre perfect to poke a bit of charcoal into.
I tried to get into the skin of a tree with this drawing. How does it feel to be moving like this beech? What does that twist feel like in my own body? Would I wear my own scars with as much dignity and grace?
‘Transfigured’
Charcoal on panel
51 x 33cm
‘Transfigured’
Charcoal on panel
51 x 33cm
February 6, 2025 at 9:19 AM
I tried to get into the skin of a tree with this drawing. How does it feel to be moving like this beech? What does that twist feel like in my own body? Would I wear my own scars with as much dignity and grace?
‘Transfigured’
Charcoal on panel
51 x 33cm
‘Transfigured’
Charcoal on panel
51 x 33cm
Here for you this #thicktrunktuesday is an ancient oak that has been sculpting itself over centuries, (with some human and animal intervention) creating the form we see today.
Chatsworth, Derbyshire.
@treeshepherd.bsky.social
Chatsworth, Derbyshire.
@treeshepherd.bsky.social
February 4, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Here for you this #thicktrunktuesday is an ancient oak that has been sculpting itself over centuries, (with some human and animal intervention) creating the form we see today.
Chatsworth, Derbyshire.
@treeshepherd.bsky.social
Chatsworth, Derbyshire.
@treeshepherd.bsky.social
If the trees could talk, would you be able to hear them? What if they have been whispering all this time? Shhh world, I’m trying to listen.
February 3, 2025 at 5:42 PM
If the trees could talk, would you be able to hear them? What if they have been whispering all this time? Shhh world, I’m trying to listen.
First trip to Calder Wood after the storm, some of the old friends have lost limbs but most are still standing
February 2, 2025 at 9:59 PM
First trip to Calder Wood after the storm, some of the old friends have lost limbs but most are still standing
Today’s studio recipe…
4 drawings of ancient oaks, made in parkland in early spring
1 drawing of a sea with a modest swell
1 drawing of a North Yorkshire waterfall
A memory of a gentle wind shifting branches slightly against the sky
I can’t really explain the method, might have been a bit magic.
4 drawings of ancient oaks, made in parkland in early spring
1 drawing of a sea with a modest swell
1 drawing of a North Yorkshire waterfall
A memory of a gentle wind shifting branches slightly against the sky
I can’t really explain the method, might have been a bit magic.
January 29, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Today’s studio recipe…
4 drawings of ancient oaks, made in parkland in early spring
1 drawing of a sea with a modest swell
1 drawing of a North Yorkshire waterfall
A memory of a gentle wind shifting branches slightly against the sky
I can’t really explain the method, might have been a bit magic.
4 drawings of ancient oaks, made in parkland in early spring
1 drawing of a sea with a modest swell
1 drawing of a North Yorkshire waterfall
A memory of a gentle wind shifting branches slightly against the sky
I can’t really explain the method, might have been a bit magic.
Would you like to be able to draw what you see?
My ‘Permission to Draw’ online course teaches you how, giving you the foundations of observational drawing and supporting your drawing habit.
Starts 4th Feb, get in touch to book.
My ‘Permission to Draw’ online course teaches you how, giving you the foundations of observational drawing and supporting your drawing habit.
Starts 4th Feb, get in touch to book.
January 28, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Would you like to be able to draw what you see?
My ‘Permission to Draw’ online course teaches you how, giving you the foundations of observational drawing and supporting your drawing habit.
Starts 4th Feb, get in touch to book.
My ‘Permission to Draw’ online course teaches you how, giving you the foundations of observational drawing and supporting your drawing habit.
Starts 4th Feb, get in touch to book.
Here for you this #thicktrunktuesday is a spectacular fallen tree finding its new direction in life.
Aberdeenshire, Scotland.
@treeshepherd.bsky.social @rainb47.bsky.social
Aberdeenshire, Scotland.
@treeshepherd.bsky.social @rainb47.bsky.social
January 28, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Here for you this #thicktrunktuesday is a spectacular fallen tree finding its new direction in life.
Aberdeenshire, Scotland.
@treeshepherd.bsky.social @rainb47.bsky.social
Aberdeenshire, Scotland.
@treeshepherd.bsky.social @rainb47.bsky.social
Full of life and natural strangeness, a birch laden with witch’s broom transformed into otherness in charcoal.
‘Besom’
Charcoal on wood panel
30 x 30cm
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#charcoaldrawings #treeartist #natureartist #treebranches
#charcoaldrawing #treedrawing #wildspaces #lovetrees #natureart
‘Besom’
Charcoal on wood panel
30 x 30cm
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#charcoaldrawings #treeartist #natureartist #treebranches
#charcoaldrawing #treedrawing #wildspaces #lovetrees #natureart
January 27, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Full of life and natural strangeness, a birch laden with witch’s broom transformed into otherness in charcoal.
‘Besom’
Charcoal on wood panel
30 x 30cm
.
.
#charcoaldrawings #treeartist #natureartist #treebranches
#charcoaldrawing #treedrawing #wildspaces #lovetrees #natureart
‘Besom’
Charcoal on wood panel
30 x 30cm
.
.
#charcoaldrawings #treeartist #natureartist #treebranches
#charcoaldrawing #treedrawing #wildspaces #lovetrees #natureart
Is everyone ok? That was a scary storm!
What happens when you fall over? Well you get back up if you can, but if you’re a tree and you can’t, you just adapt to being horizontal instead. Roots adjust, anchoring in new ways and branches tilt gradually towards the sky.
What happens when you fall over? Well you get back up if you can, but if you’re a tree and you can’t, you just adapt to being horizontal instead. Roots adjust, anchoring in new ways and branches tilt gradually towards the sky.
January 25, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Is everyone ok? That was a scary storm!
What happens when you fall over? Well you get back up if you can, but if you’re a tree and you can’t, you just adapt to being horizontal instead. Roots adjust, anchoring in new ways and branches tilt gradually towards the sky.
What happens when you fall over? Well you get back up if you can, but if you’re a tree and you can’t, you just adapt to being horizontal instead. Roots adjust, anchoring in new ways and branches tilt gradually towards the sky.
Thanks to Outer Spaces Scotland for giving me room to grow
January 23, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Thanks to Outer Spaces Scotland for giving me room to grow
So today I've been building up charcoal monoprints on the same sheet, reprinting and redrawing from the same image.
And it's been one of those rare and glorious days in the studio when ideas pour out, drawing feels easy and excitement is my guide.
And it's been one of those rare and glorious days in the studio when ideas pour out, drawing feels easy and excitement is my guide.
January 23, 2025 at 6:43 PM
So today I've been building up charcoal monoprints on the same sheet, reprinting and redrawing from the same image.
And it's been one of those rare and glorious days in the studio when ideas pour out, drawing feels easy and excitement is my guide.
And it's been one of those rare and glorious days in the studio when ideas pour out, drawing feels easy and excitement is my guide.
After making a VERY large pile of charcoal monoprints last year, I've been sifting through them, picking out bits that appeal, shuffling them on the floor and mulling over where to take it next.
January 23, 2025 at 6:43 PM
After making a VERY large pile of charcoal monoprints last year, I've been sifting through them, picking out bits that appeal, shuffling them on the floor and mulling over where to take it next.
Many years ago I made scroll drawings of the same tree from several angles and every now and then I think about other ways of combining drawings which move in time and space…
January 23, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Many years ago I made scroll drawings of the same tree from several angles and every now and then I think about other ways of combining drawings which move in time and space…