Multiple Venues, Ashburton

24th - 26th May, 2025

The first Dartmoor Tors Festival will take bring together thinkers and creatives who are interested in natural landscapes and how we relate to them.  It will be a celebration of the power and beauty of places seen as wild and ancient around Britain, and an exploration of why and how they provoke an emotional response. 

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Stone Club will be on the panel Dartmoor is the Artist – So shouldn’t we be giving Dartmoor more respect for its creativity ?

Saturday 24/05/25, 15:30 – 16:30, Ashburton Arts Centre

We are all familiar with the idea of landscape painting; for over 200 years Dartmoor’s wild landscapes have been portrayed by artists like J M Turner, William Widgery and many others that came after. But how much real credit can they take for copying something already there ?
Surely Dartmoor, with its atmospheric lighting, dramatic stone scenery and cast of hundreds of characters has been the original artist all along?

Through visual presentation and conversation find out how Dartmoor, and other places, have been leading the way for some of the most interesting human artists making art today – Lore & Land, Garry Fabian Miller, Matthew Shaw and Mark Jessett.