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Community Interest group supporting and promoting the visual arts on Dartmoor.

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Dartmoor Collective @dartmoorcollective.org · Sep 29
We're delighted to announce the publication of our new zine, Flow.
It's by far our best and biggest publication yet, featuring 60 pages of work from 35 Dartmoor visual artists exploring the theme of flow across a diversity of styles and mediums, interweaved with the words of writer, Kirsteen McNish.
Cover of the Dartmoor Collective Flow zine - it's an abstract painting inspired by Dartmoor by artist Louise Bougourd- it resembles a bank of dark grey cloud with gold highlights flowing over the moor with a brighter patch of blue sky breaking through. Colour photo by Jaiyana Chelikha- a female figure wearing a black headscarf stands alone on an area of open moorland - some sheep are visible behind, grazing through yellowish winter moorgrass and dead bracken. The colours of her clothing match that of the surrounding scene. Grey sky above. A black and white image by Iain Murray of a still, dark pool in a high Dartmoor river - a bank of gravel is highlighted by the weak sun. The landscape beyond is hazy in mist. Some words by Kirsteen McNish appear on the page to the left of the image: Daylight, a Skylark spirals its song from gorse to cloud - a tiny vortex rising like smoke At night, under a full moon, the wind sears into skin, illuminating the flux Swallowed, swaled, a cacophony shaken from an ancient dream A close up black and white photo by Simon Blackbourn of a piece of grained and weathered driftwood in a Dartmoor river.
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Our Wild Words magazine is now available to read for free on our website! Enjoy over 100 pages of inspiring stories, essays, lyrics and poetry, all inviting us to fall even more deeply in love with Dartmoor.

dartmoorpreservation.co.uk/wild-words/

#Dartmoor #naturewriting #poetry #indiemagazine
November 28, 2025 at 10:14 AM
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Fabulous work from Clare - one of the featured artists in our current Flow zine and a long-term member of and contributor to our wonderful Dartmoor Collective community.
clarerogersartist.bsky.social Clare Rogers @clarerogersartist.bsky.social · 1d
This one is finished now…..I think! A few days of fiddling with it, but it’s time to stop.

Now to frame and put on my website.

Titled, ‘Spirit of Winter’ I hope it conjures up the feel of cold darker days on Dartmoor.

Monotype and ink drawing.

#Dartmoor #winter #printmaking
November 28, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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Part of the Yellowmead four ring stone circles #Dartmoor

Hard to photograph well (for me)

Not a difficult walk but one wet November I went there, stepped up to my knee in deep mud & fell backwards into a morass when pulling it out. The drive home was, er, interesting
Some small stones of a stone circle Part of a stone circle
November 15, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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Taking photos of ponies is normally considered valid grounds for excommunication from @dartmoorcollective.org but I'm going to bend the rules for this little crew, who clearly look like they've just dropped their "difficult", post-rehab third album.
A group of four moody and windswept looking ponies on a bleak, foggy moor. They look like they've been listening to a lot of Bauhaus.
November 15, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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Dartmoor yesterday afternoon. Soggy, squelchy, shrouded, silent.
A black and white photograph of Dartmoor on a misty autumn day. Low clouds hang over a tor. Clumps of tussocked grass, gorse bushes, a puddled track. A black and white photograph of Dartmoor on a foggy autumn day. The landscape is featureless. A single puddle on a track leading to a fog-shrouded horizon. A black and white photograph of Dartmoor on a misty autumn day. A road sign blown over by the way. A fence-lined, damp road curves away to the horizon. A black and white photograph of Dartmoor on a misty autumn day. A stand of skeletal trees at a road junction. Fence posts and a gate silhouetted.
November 16, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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Dartmoor 2026 calendar now available. Featuring 12 seasonal images, printed carbon neutrally on sustainable paper. A3 format. Available on my website now for £15. Stock very limited, so grab one whilst they’re there! 📆 www.photographsbytom.com #dartmoor #2026calendar #photography #devon
October 17, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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Love this piece by Kirsteen, who provided the beautiful words for our @dartmoorcollective.org Flow zine.
caughtbytheriver.bsky.social Caught by the River @caughtbytheriver.bsky.social · 20d
'Our feet and shins are baptised in the peaty water as we walk through a leat, then pass a clootie tree and proceed to a roundhouse to consider what we have lost and what we might save.'

From a Dartmoor tor, Kirsteen McNish throws wishes out to the wind www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/11/lich...
November 9, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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Wonderful to hear that this beautiful photo by Jaiyana Chelikha, which is featured in our current Flow zine, has been shortlisted for the British Journal of Photography's Portrait of Britain.

Many congratulations Jaiyana!

pob25shortlist.1854.photography#gallery-2-101
Go Back to Where - A portrait of a young man in a mix of modern streetwear and traditional Moroccan clothing standing alone in a wide open Dartmoor landscape.
November 6, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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Just a heads up that we still have some remaining copies of Flow available if you haven't got hold of one yet.

60 pages of beautiful and original art and photography with all proceeds from sales going directly to supporting the visual arts on Dartmoor.

dartmoorcollective.org/product/flow...
Cover of the Dartmoor Collective Flow zine - an abstract landscape painting of cloud and fog over the moor.
October 31, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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Dartmoor-raised artist Dominie Hooper's debut album, "In This Body Lives" is released today.

It's a beautiful record - as darkly layered and complex as the moor itself.

Do check it out.

@dominiehooper.bsky.social

dominiehooper.bandcamp.com/album/in-thi...
In This Body Lives, by DOMINIE HOOPER
10 track album
dominiehooper.bandcamp.com
October 31, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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A beautiful publication from @dartmoorcollective.org and I am honoured to have one of my images featured in it ☺️
There is very limited availability. Grab your copy here: dartmoorcollective.org/product/flow...
Front cover of Flow by the Dartmoor Collective Yay! One of my images is featured in Flow by the Dartmoor Collective
October 29, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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A truly wonderful and inspirational collection of works @dartmoorcollective.org
October 24, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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intothehinterlands.co.uk
An “adit” is a horizontal shaft used in mine works to drain the mine of water. The water drizzles down the sides of the adit where, very slowly, it reacts with the minerals in the granite. Beautiful forms and patterns emerge on these walls in some places.
#photography #landscape #Dartmoor
An abstract close of the side of a mine shaft wall.
October 23, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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We love seeing the Flow zine out in the wild.

More copies will be making their way out to letterboxes over the next few days...

Still some copies available if you'd like one of your own.

dartmoorcollective.org/product/flow...
October 22, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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Just FYI, we are stealing "it's so fine, it even has a spine" for future marketing purposes, Stephen...

So glad you're enjoying it!
stephengbyrne.bsky.social Stephen Byrne @stephengbyrne.bsky.social · Oct 21
Ooh, look! It's @dartmoorcollective.org 's 'Flow' zine. It's so very fine it even has a spine. I just escaped relegation with 'Linear' so was hoping to be mid-table this time. Over the Moor with this result.
October 21, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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Longaford and Higher White Tors #Dartmoor
Two tors on a brown-gold Dartmoor with enormous grey clouds overhead
October 20, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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The idea behind the brief for Flow was to create a theme that was open to wide interpretation but which would inspire artists to look beneath the surface of Dartmoor and explore how it is shaped as a landscape - by people, time, weather and water...

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Image by: @theworldofmattp.bsky.social
A striking double exposed and layered image of a skeletal tree.
October 20, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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Lovely to hear - so glad you're enjoying it, Andy.
andymoorhouse.bsky.social Andy ❤️⬆️％🇺🇦 @andymoorhouse.bsky.social · Oct 19
I’m spending my Sunday with this beautiful zine from the @dartmoorcollective.org that arrived yesterday. Works from 35 wonderful artists, and text by the incomparable Kirsteen McNish. It makes me happy ❤️
You can get one too: dartmoorcollective.org
A photo of the new zine “Flow” from the Dartmoor Collective, a community interest group supporting and promoting the visual arts on Dartmoor. The front cover is a painting by Louise Bougourd, clouds and moorland.
October 19, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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With a fair wind, the first preorder Flow zines should land on doormats from today - We hope you enjoy them.

Thanks so much for everyone's support - all money raised from zine sales will directly fund future projects promoting the visual arts on Dartmoor.

dartmoorcollective.org/product/flow...
River Bed by Millie Laing-Tate. A figure reclines on what appears to be a bright blue bed suspended over a Dartmoor river in bright sunshine. In fact it's an ancient granite "clapper bridge" swathed in blue material.
October 18, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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Went to the launch of this lovely little publication from @dartmoorcollective.org on Thursday, and picked up my copy. Felt honoured to have one of my images included.

You can get a copy here:
dartmoorcollective.org/product/flow...
October 18, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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The full version of the little film I made in response to the @dartmoorcollective.org Flow brief, and which I showed at last night's launch event is now up on YouTube.

Recommend headphones for the full experience!

youtu.be/5L3wsAdqwec?...
Flow
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October 17, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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An amazing turnout for the Flow zine launch this evening.

A huge thank you to everyone who came along - it it was lovely to catch up with old friends as well as meet some new faces and really wonderful to get such positive feedback on our new publication.

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Flow zine – The Dartmoor Collective
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October 16, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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The first batch of pre-orders of the Flow zine will be heading out in the post later today and landing on doorsteps in the next few days.

A huge thank you to everyone who has ordered already - if you'd like to get your own copy then follow the link below:

dartmoorcollective.org/product/flow...
A pile of Flow zines surrounded by several other piles of filled envelopes ready to go off in the post.
October 16, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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Honoured to be featured in the latest zine from @dartmoorcollective.org

You can get your copy here: dartmoorcollective.org/product/flow...
Front cover of Flow Zine from the Dartmoor Collective
October 14, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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In case you missed it over the weekend, we were thrilled to have Kirsteen McNish's introduction of Flow featured by @caughtbytheriver.bsky.social.

There's still some free tickets available for the launch on Thursday evening if you'd like to come along, and pre-orders are now live on our website.
caughtbytheriver.bsky.social Caught by the River @caughtbytheriver.bsky.social · Oct 11
Kirsteen McNish introduces 'Flow' — a zine made in collaboration with @dartmoorcollective.org, contemplating the movement and flux which has taken place on the moor over hundreds of thousands of years www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/10/flow...

Image: Jaiyana Chelikha
October 13, 2025 at 8:12 AM