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Landscape, lore & making

Dartmoor Mythic Arts

An resource path through Dartmoor's storytelling landscape: old lore, imaginative work, and the artists whose practice has drawn meaning from moor, stone, weather, and woodland.

Read the landscape as a living text
Field guide
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A moorland resource of imagination.

Dartmoor has long gathered stories around its tors, rivers, bridges, ancient stones, and changing skies. This collection considers the region as a creative source: a place where folklore and artistic practice meet without becoming fixed in a single telling.

The landscape

Lore at the wild edge

Stories of uncanny animals, woodland presences, stone circles, and threshold places persist in the cultural imagination of Dartmoor.

Dark moorland hills beneath a moonlit sky
Reading path

The legends and lore of Dartmoor

The moor's folklore is layered rather than singular. Tales of shapeshifting hares, spectral hounds, trolls beneath old bridges, and dancing beings around stones speak to the ways landscape can be watched, remembered, and remade through story.

Here, mythic imagery offers a language for the untamed parts of nature and for the inner life stirred by a difficult, beautiful terrain.

Explore the legends and lore of Dartmoor →
Selected motifs

Images from the moor

The original collection brought together artwork inspired by myth, fairy tale, rural memory, and the close observation of place. These thematic cards preserve that route into the resource.

Sunlit woodland with tall trees

Woodland presences

Forest figures and green imagery give shape to the living, changeable world beyond the path.

Rocky upland landscape beneath clouds

Stone & weather

Tors, rough granite, mist, and open sky form a recurring visual vocabulary for moorland work.

Star-filled night sky above a dark mountain ridge

Night journeys

Nocturnal scenes carry the atmosphere of old tale, seasonal change, and imaginative passage.

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Related entries

Three preserved routes from the Dartmoor collection, each retaining its original place in the site resource.

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More Mythic Arts

Continue through the wider collection of art, literature, and mythic imagination.

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resource record

Moorland exhibitions

These notes acknowledge two earlier gatherings centred on visual art shaped by folklore and mythic imagination.

2016 record

Widdershins 2016

This resource entry documents a moorland mythic art exhibition and the range of creative disciplines represented around its shared themes of tale, performance, illustration, and crafted form.

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2013 record

Widdershins 2013

An earlier exhibition record offers another point of entry into the local conversation between imaginative art, traditional story, and the enduring pull of the moorland setting.

Read the 2013 exhibition note →
Misty green hills and woodland in a rural landscape
About this collection

Place as a source of making.

Dartmoor Mythic Arts gathers a historical editorial thread rather than a directory. It traces how a particular landscape has nourished illustration, writing, music, performance, crafts, and other forms of creative attention.

The collection is best read alongside the wider resource of folklore and mythic arts, where place-based traditions can be encountered in their literary, visual, and seasonal contexts.

For a wider view, continue to folklore, mythic arts, or the site resources.

Reader's guide

Frequently asked questions

Orientation for reading the Dartmoor material as part of a broader folklore and arts resource.

What is Dartmoor Mythic Arts?

It is an archival collection on imaginative work connected with Dartmoor, its folklore, and the creative possibilities of landscape.

Does this collection explain Dartmoor folklore?

It introduces recurring themes and links to The Legends and Lore of Dartmoor for a more focused reading path.

What kinds of art are represented here?

The resource addresses visual art, writing, music, performance, design, and crafted work where mythic or folklore-informed approaches are central.

Where can I find the exhibition records?

The preserved entries for Widdershins 2016 and Widdershins 2013 are available in this collection.

How does this connect with the wider site?

Use Mythic Arts for related creative material, or Folklore for stories, customs, and traditional narrative.

How can I contact the site?

For site-related correspondence, write to info@twfantasy.uk-en.com.