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Hello and thanks for downloading the Scotland Outdoors podcast. I'm Helen Needham.

Today standing in my garden in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. I've been enjoying the garden today

actually in observing some of the bird life that have been visiting. There's been a couple of

swallows up there on the electricity pylons. I've seen a goldfinch and some blue tits dotting around

a birch tree and there's even a starlings nest up on one of the tops of the telegraph poles as well.

Lots happening. Spring is in full swing. Well,

like many of you, I'm social distancing and working at home. So a big hello to you all wherever

you're listening to this across the world. Before we hit the lockdown situation here in Scotland,

I met up with an artist called Amy Geer.

Amy was born and brought up in, yes, the Inbit is important as you'll hear, Shetland, the island

of Yale to be specific. She studied printmaking at Grey's School of Art in Aberdeen, which is where I

met her. She then went on to the Royal College of

Art in London, and now she's back in Shetland. The reason I wanted to meet Amy was because I was

fascinated to hear her take on landscape. She sees femininity in everything, and it's highly influenced

by the folklore passed down to her by her

granny. We spent some time wondering about the grounds of Grease on the banks of the River Dee,

just on the outskirts of the city, where she explained to me how being in, rather than on,

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