Robert documented teams from South Dartmoor College training for Ten Tors between 2017 and 2020 and produced four separate series of images during this period, all of which can be found on his website:
www.robertdarch.com/ten-tors
If you're not aware of Ten Tors, it's a an event organised by the British Army involving teams from schools and youth organisations across the South West navigating across Dartmoor self-supported on 35, 45 and 55 mile routes - a real rite of passage for local young people.
www.tentors.org.uk
A group of 6 very wet looking young people with heavy rucksacks trudge across a foggy and bleak moorland landscape. Muted colours and grey sky.
As we head into the peak of Ten Tors training season here on Dartmoor, it seems a good time to re-share @intothehinterlands.co.uk' s interview with photographer Robert Darch from a few years ago, which features images from his series documenting the event.
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Giving this a little bump - if you've got an article or feature you'd like to pitch for the website, or have a Dartmoor related arts project or event that you'd like to talk about, then we'd really love to hear from you.
Thrilled to launch the 2nd #DartmoorTorsFestival - celebrating Dartmoor’s nature and culture. We’ve got talks, walks, performances and more .. shorturl.at/8ROTt
@visitdartmoor.bsky.social @dpadartmoor.bsky.social @dartmoorcollective.org @dartmoorac.bsky.social
There's a fabulous and amazingly diverse range of events lined up for this years Dartmoor Tors Festival in Ashburton in May.
Well worth checking out the programme.
dartmoortorsfestival.co.uk/programme/
A HUGE thank you to everyone who has supported us by buying our Flow zine so far - it means a lot.
Still a few copies left if you'd like to get your hands on 60 pages of unique Dartmoor art and photos accompanied by the beautiful words of Kirsteen McNish.
dartmoorcollective.org/product/flow...
An old stone bridge crosses the river. On the far side of the bridge the dawn sun is beginning to light up small bushes & trees in the hoar-frost.
#BlueSkyArtShow #Cold #EastCoastKin
The dawn sun gradually creeps down in the frost-bitten valley. Dartmoor - one winters morn.
#Photography #Landscape #Nature #Walking #Hiking #PhotographesrsofBluesky #PhotographersUnite #Dartmoor #Devon
Monochrome image of the road from Princetown to Yelverton on Dartmoor. The rain had just stopped and the sun was doing it's best to break through.
The sun will eventually return and bring colour back to Dartmoor.
A straight, stony track leads off in a straight line across bleak moorland in winter, stormy skies above.
A little known and sobering aspect of Dartmoor's wartime history explored in this photo essay by @intothehinterlands.co.uk
If you have an idea for a future Dartmoor related feature, photo essay or article for the website then we'd love to hear from you.
dartmoorcollective.org/featured-con...
It would be remiss of me not to promote Changing Landscapes again after such a lovely post about it 😊.
www.mariegardiner.co.uk/zines-and-pr...
Andrew is one of four members of the academy featured in the new Elemental exhibition at RWA Bristol, which runs to the 8th March.
Sure to be well worth a visit. Full details below:
www.rwa.org.uk/collections/...
Dartmoor, Pale Yellow Sky - multimedia landscape work. Layered with paint, wire and other found materials. Earthen tones of the moor below, highly textured yellow tinged clouds above.
We've been privileged to feature Andrew Hardwick's uniquely striking Dartmoor landscape works in two of our previous exhibitions, and he is now part of the RWA's new Elemental exhibition.
Here's a feature interview with Andrew we did a couple of years back.
dartmoorcollective.org/featured-con...
Cheers! Hope to catch up again soon.
You can contact us on here or via the contact page on the website:
dartmoorcollective.org/contact/
Musing on the potential for @dartmoorcollective.org to take over the currently vacant HMP Dartmoor and convert it into a vast and slightly irradiated conceptual arts space...
I mean, it's secure and has got decent lighting for a start...
A red moon emerging from dark, apocalyptic-looking clouds
We'll be sharing some of our favourite website features and over the course of the next few weeks, starting with this fascinating interview with Salford based artist, @notquitelight.bsky.social about his often unnerving experiences of visiting Dartmoor.
dartmoorcollective.org/featured-con...
Our website features an eclectic range of artist interviews and articles about the visual arts on Dartmoor.
If you'd be interested in pitching an idea for a future feature, or would like to talk about a project you're working on then, we'd love to hear from you.
dartmoorcollective.org/features/
Two views of the same file - one mono the other colour. They show a traditional dry stone wall of granite boulders leading away along the edge of a wood and disappearing into the mist. In the centre is a tree bounded by the wall on the left side and a fence on the right. The boulders are covered with moss & lichens and the red-brown colours is the decaying bracken. I can't decide which I prefer - the colour or the mono image. Any opinions?
Two views of the same file - one mono the other colour. They show a traditional dry stone wall of granite boulders leading away along the edge of a wood and disappearing into the mist. In the centre is a tree bounded by the wall on the left side and a fence on the right. The boulders are covered with moss & lichens and the red-brown colours is the decaying bracken. I can't decide which I prefer - the colour or the mono image. Any opinions?
For #JanuArty2026 #Soft in association with #RockinTuesday
The same file. One #colour the other #Monochrome. Not the only difference but it is the obvious one. I genuinely cant decide which I prefer.
Any opinions?
#ECK #ClassicMono #Photography #Nature #Walking #Landscape
#Dartmoor, #Devon
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A featureless expanse of grass.
Beautiful Dartmoor ?
The northern uplands. A vast, wet and almost featureless series of plains with nothing to admire for miles and miles. Underfoot is tricky to treacherous; always damp, sometimes bog or mire and potholes, hidden in the grass, ready to grab your ankle and turn it.
#photography
A road on dartmoor stretches away into the fog
Dartmoor in all its glory
Close up of strand of green usnea lichen hanging on a metal wire fence, glistening with rain droplets. Dark windows of a disused granite farm blurred in the background.
Made it up to the remains of Laughter Hole Farm from Bellever today.
Every time I go there it seems to be have regressed further into the surrounding dense. lichen-clad woodland.
Even the steel security fence around the farm buildings is now being colonised!
#Dartmoor
Some wonderful portraits here... including Jaiyana Chelikha’s "Go Back to Where", which we featured in our @dartmoorcollective.org Flow zine.
(Still a few copies available btw)
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
Some beautifully moody conditions on yesterday afternoon’s dog walk #dartmoor #atmosphere #photography
Over the moon to hear today that Jaiyana has been selected as one of the winners of Portrait of Britain!
This means that as well as being featured in the Portrait of Britain book "Go Back to Where?" will also be shown on digital billboards across the UK.
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Taken at night this image shows a full moon setting towards the horizon.
Nights like These.....
Taken at 5am in the Taw valley on Dartmoor. The moon is setting, it's bitterly cold and utterly beautiful.
#photography #landscape #Dartmoor
From my new book, ‘The Edge of Ruin’
Available to order.
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Whiteworks, Devon
One of Dartmoor’s largest tin mines gave rise to this former hamlet, which overlooks the challenging, boggy ground at Fox Tor Mire. Fox Tor is reputed to have inspired the novel The Hound of the Baskervilles by...
📖 We recently explored some of the archives we hold of authors inspired by Dartmoor with @bbcspotlight.bsky.social
See more of the conversation on catch-up once tonight's Spotlight episode is available www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
#SouthWestWriters #Landscapes #Nature #Inspiration
The 1st of January 2026 marked the centenary of landmark legislation which, for the first time, created a right to walk and ride on significant areas of common land in town and country. This law was largely thanks to our friends the Open Spaces Society.
dartmoorpreservation.co.uk/centenary-of...
A black and white photograph of the 'long stone' standing stone on Dartmoor. The stone is covered in lichen, has a pointed top, and the letters "GP" (Gidleigh Parish) are carved into it about halfway up. Kestor Rock is in the background on the left, and Thornworthy Tor just visible on the right.
The Long Stone on Dartmoor with Kestor in the background. It was used as a parish boundary marker and has "GP" and "DC" carved into it (Gidleigh Parish and Duchy of Cornwall). An amazing part of the moor with stone rows, standing stones, hut circles and field systems all around.
#standingStoneSunday
