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Creatives

Artists, makers and creative practitioners with Dartmoor connections

Rebecca Beattie
Dartmoor People

Rebecca Beattie

Bere Alston

Dartmoor-raised author, Wiccan priestess and witchcraft teacher whose books explore nature, magic and the wheel of the year.

John Bainbridge
Dartmoor People

John Bainbridge

English author, countryside access campaigner and former CEO of the Dartmoor Preservation Association, with around thirty books on British topography.

Helen JR Bruce
Dartmoor People

Helen JR Bruce

Folklorist, author and storyteller specialising in Dartmoor folklore, the Wild Hunt and Black Dog legends, available for talks, signings and guided walks.

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Promiseland Poetry

Widecombe-in-the-Moor

Dartmoor poetry and collaborative art celebrating the landscape through verse and photography.

Helen Jackson — Dartmoor Photographer
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Helen Jackson — Dartmoor Photographer

Dartmoor, Newton Abbot

Helen Jackson (formerly Northcott) is a photographer living and working on Dartmoor. Known for her distinctive landscape photography and her acclaimed project documenting Dartmoor's disappearing red telephone boxes — the subject of two books. Prints and canvases available for worldwide shipping.

Community & Organisations

The Dartmoor Collective

Devon, Exeter

The Dartmoor Collective is a non-profit community interest company promoting visual artists working on or inspired by Dartmoor. Hosts summer exhibitions at Poltimore House, publishes acclaimed photozines, operates an online community and bursary programme for emerging photographers, and has featured work at RAMM Exeter and internationally.

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Robert Darch

Devon, Exeter

Robert Darch is an internationally recognised British artist-photographer based in Devon. His work uses landscape and portraiture to construct narrative responses to place — most notably Dartmoor, which forms the setting for his acclaimed book 'The Moor' (2018). Associate Lecturer in Photography at Plymouth University.

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The Dartmoor Artist

Near Haytor, Newton Abbot

Sarah Smith is a self-taught artist and sustainable homeware maker living and working on a Dartmoor farmstead near Haytor. Featured in Country Living and listed among the UK's Top 100 Female Entrepreneurs. Creates hand-painted acrylic paintings, botanical prints, illustrated homewares and stationery inspired by Dartmoor's seasons, hedgerows and moorland.

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