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Anns a’phrΓ²gram seo tha Fraoch a’dΓ¨anamh dealbh dhen sgeulaiche Essie StiΓΉbhart. Heather Dewar draws a colour portrait of storyteller and traveller Essie Stewart.

Tha Fraoch Nic an DeΓ²ir a Ìle air ais air an sgrion le sreath ΓΉr de β€œDhealbhan Fraoich”. An dΓ  chuid na tΓ¨-ealain agus na ceasnaiche, tha i a’dΓ¨anamh dealbhan dathte de GhΓ idheil air a bheil sinn eΓ²lach – agus a’tΓ ladh asta iomadh sgeul mu eachdraidh am beatha. Anns a’phrΓ²gram seo tha Fraoch a’dΓ¨anamh dealbh dhen sgeulaiche Essie StiΓΉbhart. Tha Essie an-diugh a’fuireach ann an Drochaid a’Bhanna, ach bha mΓ²ran dhe beatha air rothaidean na h-Alba: bhuineadh i dhan teaghlach StiΓΉbhart a bha measg an dΓ²rlach mu dheireadh a lean caitheamh-beatha traidiseanta an luchd-siubhail.

Islay-born Heather Dewar returns to our screens with another series of β€œDealbhan Fraoich”. Combining the role of artist and interviewer, she creates colour portraits of well-known Gaels while teasing out of them every little detail of their life story!

This episode sees Heather draw storyteller Essie Stewart. Essie lives in the village of Bonar Bridge but has spent much of her life as a traveller. Her family, the Stewarts, were one of the last to live in the traditional traveller way.

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