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Artists & Painters

Visual artists working in any medium

Our Dartmoor lists 21 artists and painters on and around Dartmoor, with the largest groups in Ashburton (3), Princetown (2).

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Contemporary Figures

Alan Lee

Chagford

Illustrator and film designer Alan Lee moved to Chagford in 1975. Kate Greenaway Medal and an Oscar winner, known for his Tolkien art and the book Faeries.

Artists & Painters

Alex Murdin

Artist and curator whose recent work focuses on the geology and stone culture of Dartmoor, where he lives; co-author of Rock Idols: A Guide to Dartmoor in 28 Tors.

Artists & Painters

Anne-Marie Furse

Princetown

Anne-Marie Furse is a landscape artist, illustrator and printmaker whose vibrant, atmospheric work is inspired by the scenery and history of Dartmoor and the Cornish coast.

Dartmoor quiz

Old books sometimes spell "Leather Tor" differently. Which of these is one of those spellings?

Lether Tor. It appears in 12 of the old books and papers in our research library, so the name has not always been written the way we write it now.

Worth a visit
Feline Charpentier
Authors & Writers

Feline Charpentier

Writer and editor based in South Devon, exploring narrative, nature and the stories we tell ourselves.

Ford Street Gallery
Artists & Painters

Ford Street Gallery

Moretonhampstead

Ford Street Gallery is an exciting new art gallery in the centre of Moretonhampstead, displaying and selling fine art and photography.

Artists & Painters

Ian Cox

Ian Cox Arts - fine art prints and drawings

Historical Figures

John Swete

Ashburton

Ashburton-born clergyman and artist (1752-1821) whose illustrated journals of Georgian Devon began with a tour across Dartmoor in 1789.

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A close-up photograph from DartmoorPhotograph by Glavind Strachan Photography

“Patches of mist all full of silver light moved like lonely living things on the face of the high Moor.”

Also on Our DartmoorRing cairn near Merrivale Bridge — A ring cairn on Longash Common, south-east of Merrivale Bridge, in one of the densest concentrations of ritual monuments on Dartmoor.