Claire Hewitt is a professional Storyteller and Artist living in Highland Perthshire. For forty years she has been involved in gathering and inspiring local communities connection to their natural environment, and to one another through the arts. For the last 20 years this has been through the carrying stream of the oral tradition. In turn her own artistic practice as a Storyteller, musician and Visual Artist has been enriched, nourished and supported manifold by this incredibly diverse community, human and wild, which stretches itself along the River Tay.

Her practice over the years has developed from early days as a Fine Artist, Community Artist, training as an Art Therapist, to working as a freelance Storyteller in Scotland and overseas in Africa, Japan, Finland, France, Norway, Estonia, Eastern Europe, Dubai, and India.

She has had the privilege to be involved in projects with Historic Scotland; Pamis Sensory Storytelling Resources; RSGS; Plant-life Scotland; Scottish Poetry Library and Storytelling Centre; Scottish Forestry Commission and many Community based Storytelling projects, keeping the Oral tradition a living tradition ‘Eye to eye, mind to mind and heart to heart.’

Her recent exhibition ‘Stepping into the Mythic’ celebrated her journey from maiden, mother to crone  ….  a weaving of story inspired imagery, stepping into the feet of the ancestors whilst sharing the journey of a life long lived and her dedication to the Oral Tradition.