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Creatives

Artists, makers and creative practitioners with Dartmoor connections

Business

Tavy Signs

Tavistock

Tavistock-based signage company offering vehicle wraps, business signs and promotional printing across Dartmoor and the South West.

Sounding Bowls
Business

Sounding Bowls

Buckfastleigh

Hand-sculpted wooden musical instruments crafted on Dartmoor for healing sound therapy, workshops and live performances.

Manaton and East Dartmoor Theatre
Business

Manaton and East Dartmoor Theatre

Buckfastleigh

Community theatre organisation on Dartmoor creating original plays and drama work inspired by the landscape, history and folklore of rural Devon.

Helen Jackson - Dartmoor Photographer
Business

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.

The Dartmoor Collective
Community & Organisations

The Dartmoor Collective

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.

Robert Darch
Business

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.

Business

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.

Community & Organisations

The Med Theatre

Moretonhampstead, Newton Abbot

Creating rural community theatre inspired by the ecology, history and folklore of Dartmoor

Heritage & Places

Stone Lane Gardens

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.