Artists, makers and creative practitioners with Dartmoor connections
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.
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.
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.
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.
Moretonhampstead, Newton Abbot
Creating rural community theatre inspired by the ecology, history and folklore of Dartmoor
Chagford
Sheepskin interiors and accessories handmade by us on Dartmoor, using sheepskins from our own flocks alongside 100% British sheepskins and wool.
Chagford
Stone Lane Gardens is an enchanting 5-acre woodland gardens on the edge of the Dartmoor National Park, famous for a National Collection of Birch and Alder trees and annual sculpture exhibition.
Postbridge, Yelverton
Powdermills Pottery - Pottery for sale, pottery courses & cream teas in an old gunpowder factory in the heart of Dartmoor National Park.
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A Vast Solitude by Paul Harris - Glavind Strachan Photography A review of "An Exploration of Dartmoor and its…
Will the real Mary Maria Colling please stand up? (A Dartmoor Story about a lowly Tavistock resident in the Nineteenth…
Bowerman’s Nose: Legends are like memes in slow motion by Paul Harris - Glavind Strachan Photography The universe is…
Exercise Baskerville by Clive Darke In 1967 there were eighteen deaths from exposure (hypothermia) and frostbite on…
In the Footsteps of Francis Drake by David J. Hawkings As a boy growing up in Plymouth, I often found myself looking to…
The Loneliest Place by George Wall A solitary hawthorn twists improbably out of the earth. The silhouette of a distant…
Prehistoric Dartmoor by Andrew McAuley Most visitors to Dartmoor National Park are aware that it is a landscape full of…
