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).
Use the map or the list below to see where each one is.
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.
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.
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.
Writer and editor based in South Devon, exploring narrative, nature and the stories we tell ourselves.
Moretonhampstead
Ford Street Gallery is an exciting new art gallery in the centre of Moretonhampstead, displaying and selling fine art and photography.
Do you need unique, original illustration for your business? Get in touch!
Ashburton
Ashburton-born clergyman and artist (1752-1821) whose illustrated journals of Georgian Devon began with a tour across Dartmoor in 1789.
Photograph by Glavind Strachan Photography“And often have I seen the moor so chequered and broken with light and shade, that it required no stretch of the imagination to convert many a weather-beaten tor into the towers and ruined walls of a feudal castle. Nay, even human forms, gigantic in their dimensions, sometimes seemed to start wildly ...”
Also on Our DartmoorScorhill Tor — A modest tor overshadowed by the famous Scorhill Stone Circle, with views down to the North Teign river.
