Rosalind Ahmed @21rosa.bsky.social Museums, galleries, medieval and Irish literature, folklore, poetry, botany, Cumbrian walks, Oxfam bookstores. Remainer trying to do the right thing in a world that's going/gone off balance. All 📸 mine, unless stated
Blue Poppy Publishing @bluepoppypub.bsky.social Nano-publisher & provider of self-publishing services based in Ilfracombe, Devon.
Submissions open for books with a strong focus on Devon and the South West.
https://www.bluepoppypublishing.co.uk
Dr Lena Ferriday @lenaferriday.bsky.social Research Associate in histories of wild swimming @ Newcastle University
Bodies, senses, environment, materiality, the more-than-human, rural and urban modern Britain.
https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/lena-ferriday
Luke Turner @luketurner.bsky.social Author: Men at War - Loving, Lusting, Fighting, Remembering 1939-1945 on British masculinity, sexuality & the cultural memory of WWII on W&N Books/Orion. First 📖 Out of the Woods, 2019. Co-founder: The Quietus. My stuff: https://linktr.ee/luketurner ⚒️🏳️🌈
@chrisull.bsky.social @chrisull.bsky.social Programmer, author, musician (lo-fi),
amateur historian, amateur environmentalist (butterfly transect walker at Golitha Falls), chair of St Cleer Environmental group, runner, running coach and Birmingham City
𝕯𝕺𝕸𝕴𝕹𝕴𝕰 𝕳𝕺𝕺𝕻𝕰𝕽 @dominiehooper.bsky.social 🌜Dartmoor/London🌛
The Debut Album IN THIS BODY LIVES out now on Lost Map Records
Touring Jan/Feb ‘26 🦇 👇
https://linktr.ee/dominiehooper
Sam Johnson @analoguelass.bsky.social Film photographer documenting the working landscape of the English Lake District, half a frame at a time. Art lover. Art maker. All photographs taken and developed by me unless reposts and all rights are reserved©️ #believeinfilm
Longden Calling @longdencalling.bsky.social Shropshire
📷 and 🖊️by me unless not
Profile pic Ingrid Thulin in 𝘈𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘬𝘵𝘦𝘵 (𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘔𝘢𝘨𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘯, Ingmar Bergman 1957)
-ai
Tim Noble @tim-lh.bsky.social Once upon a time: The Lowland Hundred. These days: whatever floats my way. Probably some new music stuff in 2026 || North Tyneside
Music on the Edge @musicontheedge.bsky.social Music on the Edge explores the work of two musicians: Susie Hodder-Williams and Chris Caldwell.
Their music melds the ancient with the contemporary, creating ambient improvisations and landscape inspired soundscapes.
Utterly captivating
The Independent
Caught by the River @caughtbytheriver.bsky.social Wading around at the confluence of arts / nature / culture since 2007
Regular posts at caughtbytheriver.net 🐟 Irregular printed matter, record releases & events via rivertones.bandcamp.com and our Friday newsletter
William Box @wdmbox.bsky.social Low carbon building performance, music, poetry, art and very amateur horn playing.
@angerj.eurosky.social @angerj.eurosky.social Once a bookseller, always booky, so you'll see some of that here. Also trained in horticulture. Now making art among other things. UK
Joss @ Powdermills Pottery @joss-pottery.bsky.social Wood firing potter based on Dartmoor National Park.
Dartmoor Preservation Association @dpadartmoor.bsky.social Fighting to keep Dartmoor Wild and Free since 1883. Named critical friend to the Dartmoor National Park Authority. www.dartmoorpreservation.co.uk
Andrew Male @andrewmale.bsky.social Writer and arts journalist. MOJO, Guardian, and The Sunday Times. Sight & Sound's TV columnist.
cdx-foto / Meaisín ceastóireacht @cdx-foto.bsky.social Ruinous photographer, interrogative writer, critical poetic artist. Brexile. Сталкер.
a.k.a. Sz. Berlin (sound / art)
a.k.a. Codex Europa (DJ / reviewer)
a.k.a. Áit Rúin (Irish art)
Writer/Cultural Theorist: http://tiny.cc/74il001
Sophie Pierce @smpierce.bsky.social Author: The Green Hill, a memoir about the sudden death of my son Felix. Rock Idols, a guide to Dartmoor in 28 tors; various wild swimming guides.
Co-organiser, Dartmoor Tors Festival 1-4 May 2026
https://linktr.ee/sophiepierce
Charlie Massey @charliecoffee.bsky.social Runner, hiker, spaniel chaser, A314875 MV70. Dartmoorphile. Mountain dreamer. Novice bridge player. Retired real coffee and bread business owner, allotmenteer. Following QPR since 1966. Family man with a son in 🇨🇭 and daughter an NHS surgeon. Rutland UK.
joe charrington @joecharrington.bsky.social earthstepper / photographer / filmmaker
New Photobook "Dumnonia" on human relationship to the Dartmoor landscape OUT NOW 🪨 https://shorturl.at/SVZL7
Co-Director of Picnic, community photography organisation and library.
www.joecharrington.co.uk
Michèle Brown MA - Earth Painter 〓〓 @earthpainter.bsky.social Visual artist, watercolour, printmaking, paint maker, occasional weaver and musician. Passionate about nature, rocks, prehistory, landscape, and a deep love and respect for our home, the Earth. Based in the far west of Cornwall, UK.
Please no NFT or DM
Rachel Burch @rachelburch.bsky.social Deeply unwell, deeply mossy, wheelchair user, Dartmoor photographer, old book lover and hedgehog whisperer. 🦔🦼📖 have been a photographer for 35 years.
https://thegreenlanesshimmer.etsy.com
Tom Dauben @tomdauben.bsky.social Dartmoor based work in progress human Sharing photos of landscapes, nature, travel and adventures.
My book ‘Dartmoor Unedited’ out now!
www.photographsbytom.com #dartmoor #devon #photographer
Karen Trewern @ktrewern.bsky.social Photographer based in Torquay, I've exhibited at Artizan Gallery, Torquay and Glasgow Gallery of Photography with inclusion in forthcoming exhibitions
Check out my website
https://www.karentrewernphotography.co.uk/
Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery @rammuseum.bsky.social Exeter's museum & art gallery, home to Gerald the giraffe. Entry is free. RAMM is an Exeter City Council service 🦒🏺🦋🦴🖼️
Bernadina Lloyd @ithappenedtome.bsky.social Artist, reader, dog lover, mucky, feminist
Instagram.com/bernadinalloyd.co.uk
Chance favours the prepared mind
-Louis Pasteur
Terri Windling @terriwindling.bsky.social Writer, editor, artist, folklorist. Winner of ten World Fantasy Awards, the Mythopoeic Award (for The Wood Wife), the Bram Stoker Award, and the SFWA Solstice Award. Wanderer of the deep, dark forest of story in language and paint.
Dartmoor, Devon, UK
Gareth Young @gaf-young.bsky.social Dartmoor dweller. Likes walking the dogs, dancing, sleeping, eating and drinking. Occasionally sociable. Interested in science/nature, territorial politics of the UK, constitutional reform and English history & culture.
Also at @ecommonwealth.bsky.social
the PRSD @theprsd.bsky.social Independent coverage of culture, art, news and views from the People's Republic of South Devon and beyond.
Est 2006
theprsd.co.uk
@hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social Phoenix Guide to Strange England: #Hookland. Run by David Southwell
#Hauntology Re-wilding #Folklore #FolkHorror #Psychogeography #LandscapePunk Re-enchantment Is Resistance https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1068598123
Claire Cansick @clairecansick.bsky.social Painter
Norfolk, UK
Government Art Collection | Sainsbury Centre for Visual Art | Norwich Castle Museum | Cold Paradise | Jacksons 19&24 | Firstsite | Contemporary & Country
https://linktr.ee/ClaireCansick
Stuart G. Spicer @stuartgspicer.bsky.social Data person. Music fan. Hiking enthusiast & nature lover often found on Dartmoor. Save the NHS.
Matt Parker @theworldofmattp.bsky.social Digital artist
Fascinated by the emotions that landscapes evoke in us
I create re-imagined landscapes that invite people to reflect on their world
Wiltshire UK
Dr Theresa Oakley @archaetexts.bsky.social Work: Special Collections & Archives Librarian at Uni of Worcester, UK
Non-work: Archaeologist with PhD on sheela-na-gigs. Ancient & historic buildings & landscapes, music (rock & metal, folk), dance, plants, art - all passions. Devon maid/crone 📚
Dr Adrian Colston @dartmoorac.bsky.social Self-employed ecologist and a rural social scientist worrying about Dartmoor: wildlife, hill-farmers, archaeology, peat & wilding. Also Associate Research Fellow Centre for Rural Policy Research at the University of Exeter And Scilly!
Rick Gaehl @rickgaehl.bsky.social Retired bloke in Devon who identifies as European and is interested in politics, the environment, photography, the arts, history, cycling, and stuff.
All photos are mine unless credited elsewhere.
Also to be found here: https://mstdn.social/@RickGaehl
Clare Rogers @clarerogersartist.bsky.social Artist & Tree Hugger
Richard Hall @richardhall.bsky.social Methodist minister, scout leader, analogue photography wannabe. Occasional zine maker. Proud founder-member of the Photozine Collective.
I've had my fill of arguing with strangers on the internet so I'm keeping this space conflict free.
Prof Penny Endersby @pennyend.bsky.social CBE FREng. Chief Executive of the Met Office. Weather, climate, physics, digital & data, with a scatter of wildlife, Dartmoor, old churches and choral music
UnOfPhoto @unofphoto.bsky.social Photographic conversation and debate curated by Dr Grant Scott Subject Coordinator Photography UG and PG at Oxford Brookes University. The weekly A Photographic Life podcast is available wherever you get your podcasts... www.unitednationsofphotography.com
Moley𝕋𝕙𝕖𝕄𝕠𝕝𝕖 @moleymole.bsky.social An outdoorsy photoshoppy mole- likes National Trust scones & Dartmoor. A bookish mole in a hole seeking the return of integrity. #AltText - no AI🚫 (Internet searches were faster and more accurate *before* AI…)
Miranda Whiting @mirandawhiting.bsky.social Same person as on other platforms
Dale Sutherland - Roberts @dalesr.bsky.social Father • Husband • Forest planner • Photographer • Photo books/zines •
North Yorkshire
dsrphotographic.myportfolio.com
Radio Lento @radiolento.bsky.social #Podcast. Landscape sound postcards in 3D immersive sound. Best with earphones. Listen while reading, resting or being mindful. Launched 2020. #SlowRadio
Listen here > https://radiolento.podbean.com
Support here > https://ko-fi.com/radiolento
Simon Petherick @simontpetherick.bsky.social Writer, ghostwriter.
London and Cornwall.
I write novels and journalism under my own name, and I write memoirs and fiction for clients under theirs.
Www.simonpetherick.com.
William M. Cavert @williamcavert.bsky.social Historian of Britain, its animals, pollution, energy, climate, nature, and people. Author of The Smoke of London: Energy and Environment in the Early Modern City. Living in St Paul, MN.
Matt @mattbuc.bsky.social Shire dweller..
Photography/ Sailing/ Gardening/ Tea drinker
Lin Chatfield @linchat.bsky.social Reader, artist, likes cats (dogs ok too) steam engines, history, curious about lots of stuff, magical things…
Joanne Livsey @jolivsey.bsky.social Nature, science, tech, and Border Terriers. Lincolnshire.
nomoth @nomoth.bsky.social 🇵🇸
Film and digital photography
A bit of a photo diary.
Ian @devonseaglass.bsky.social Searching for the last piece in Devon.
Tim Manwaring @timmanwaring.bsky.social Social account. Mainly photos and hope. Garden Centre Receptionist of the Year 1996. Driver Trainer, Forest of Bowland.
Jane Samuels @janesamuels.bsky.social Mancunian artist and writer. Geography, ecology, place and politics, prolific drinker of cheap whiskeys. Inventive dancer.
PhD Candidate at the Centre for Place Writing, MMU. Never AI.
littleramstudio @littleramstudio.bsky.social Heather & Gary, artists specialising in printmaking. Often covered in ink, compost or bread dough. One of us has cancer, so if we're not here you'll find us at the hospital.
Find work> littleramstudio.etsy.com also Country Living Marketplace
Camilla @manukenkun.bsky.social I make art, sleep & curate exhibitions. I spend a lot of time thinking about the Arctic.
https://linktr.ee/CamillaStaceyArt
Nick Webb @limiteddof.bsky.social Photographer, engineer, amateur chemist…
www.limiteddepthoffield.wordpress.com
'Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.' - John Lennon, 'Beautiful Boy'
📍Byleryky, Essex, England
Lee @leesplace.bsky.social Film photography.Darkroom printing.
Ashley @grumpyfck.bsky.social Owner of Plymouth Darkroom. Film Photography and printing. Vintage camera lover.
Lin Hawthorne @haggewoods.bsky.social Still Curious
Editor, author, biologist, horticulturist. FLS
Dilettante now, with interests in
Scientific Latin
Plant-invertebrate interactions
Colours of Nature
Truth and Beauty
naturallatin.com
Geoff Shaw @gshawisme.bsky.social Mainly music, sometimes other stuff, very occasionally running #MDANT
Music photos on IG @gsmusicphotos
Jenny @dartmoorherbs.bsky.social Medical herbalist, photographer, middling writer, terrible artist. Living on the edge of Dartmoor 🌞
Paul O’Neill @paul-o.bsky.social Former dog sofa. Spondy. Dementia carer. “Worst Housing Officer in the world”, okayest supported housing manager. Misplaced Geordie, adopted Devonian.
Marie Gardiner @mariegardiner.bsky.social PhD student researching working class identity, 'deindustrialisation,' & deficit narratives.
Also: writer, photographer, docu producer (@lonelytower.bsky.social), general annoyance.
📍NE England |🤸♀️ she/her | MDANT 🏅| 🔗https://linktr.ee/mariegardiner
Amanda Mugford 〓〓 @amandamugford.bsky.social I don't step on snails
Kernewek
https://www.instagram.com/mugfordamanda/profilecard/?igsh=MWtyOWZvNWV5M3Q0NQ==
Nick Stone @typejunky.bsky.social Traffic island castaway.
https://www.invisibleworks.co.uk/
Kim @kimaldis.bsky.social Dog shouterer, pedant, accidental photographer.
Https://www.Aldis.co.uk
* Lensculture Critics' Choice 2022
* Shortlisted RPS Int. Exhibition 2023
* Independent Photographer Editor's Choice 2022
* SPi Finalist 2018
Devon.
Hinterlands @intothehinterlands.co.uk Photographer.
Mr Ian B @mrianb.bsky.social Village idiot
Iain Sarjeant @iainsarjeant.bsky.social Photographer & publisher based in the Scottish Highlands
iainsarjeant.com
Editor of @anotherplacemag.bsky.social and runs @anotherplacepress.bsky.social
Cat Frampton @catframpton.bsky.social Dartmoor based artist and Farmer who believes land layering is possible - She/her - Team waxcap/dung beetle/nature - it’s always more complicated than that!
Simon Spanton @simonguy.bsky.social "I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself."
Wandering. Wondering. Freelance SFFH editor. Commissioning for The Broken Binding. Living in Edinburgh. Views my own and independent of my employers. Photos my own unless otherwise etc.
Another Place Press @anotherplacepress.bsky.social Small independent publisher showcasing contemporary photography which explores our relationship with 'place' - Run by @iainsarjeant.bsky.social
https://anotherplacepress.bigcartel.com/
Lomelindi12 @lomelindi12.bsky.social
Hold your plans lightly in your hands
Reversing uphill in Devon lanes since time immemorial so you don’t have to
Full of wit. Wit, I said
#95%Dartmoor #5%civilised
#MS #formerlawyer #TheArchers #dementiacarer #FitsofRage™️
No DMs
📎
Rebecca Lambert (She/Her) ♾️🐭🍉 @reblambert.bsky.social Cultural Archaeologist, Wanderer, Ponderer.
Practises Make Places: Artists’ Responses to ‘Prehistoric’ Monuments - Manchester Metropolitan University & English Heritage.
Surprised, but very proud #MDANT
Neurodivergent person
Kirsten van Schreven RBA @kirstenvanschreven.bsky.social Printmaker/draughtsperson. MA Fine Art Printmaking, Chelsea School of Art. Spyro the Dragon. RBA, Discerning Eye, Wells Art Contemp, Derwent Art Prize 2024, RA Summer Exhib 2016/19/24/25, Trinity Buoy Wharf Prize 2025, Jackson’s Art Prize Longlist 2025.
Michael Faint @ansolasoir.com Photos. Birds. Occasional words.
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Latest work here👇
https://www.ansolasoir.com/journal
Bluesky & Hutch @hutchandsons.bsky.social Grateful for small mercies
#Devon root bound
Devon Dympsy @devondympsy.bsky.social Trains, Architecture, Maps, History, Music, Art, Theatre, Literature, Film. Plus a few stupid jokes, and quite a lot of beer ! 😁🍺🍺
Nathan Nelson @nathannelson.co.uk Devon-dwelling biophiliac. Dog dad. Food systems, farming and agroecology, trees, nature connection, cack-handed gardening, movies. Solvitur ambulando.
Minafon @minafon.bsky.social Woman from Wales
Jevon Carey @jevoncarey.bsky.social Sometime amateur photographer.
Fen dweller in the frozen eastern wasteland of Cambridgeshire.
Link to my website.
https://jevoncarey.myportfolio.com/
The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social We explore the history of the English countryside and its people. Chaotic Good.
https://merl.reading.ac.uk/
Neil Burnell @neilburnell.bsky.social Atmospheric Landscape Photographer 🇬🇧
V@l D@vies @valtinkum.bsky.social Devon, Sweden, Maine Coons, cricket, knitting, beach, distilleries, 💙.
Alison Donovan @grannygermalee.bsky.social Mother to what seems like thousands…Granny to even more.. sort of gardener, cook …. lots of things but nothing particularly successfully…
NotQuiteLight @notquitelight.bsky.social Artist - exploring the places in which we exist, in the half-light of dawn & dusk.
Photography. Film. Audio. Text. Music.
notquitelight.com
Andrew Macdonald @andrew-poho.bsky.social This and that, here and there.
Ian Ames @ames.world I help multidisciplinary teams deliver services in a user centred way.
Anagram of Amnesia.
Kieran Metcalfe @kieranmetcalfephotography.co.uk Landscape Photographer - kieranmetcalfephotography.co.uk
Cloudscapes #PaintedSkies
Web Dev for Song & Hymn Writers Foundation / Churchsongs.co.uk
Alex Boyd @alexanderboyd.bsky.social Photographer, writer, academic, PhD. Mountains. Art. Scottish art. www.alex-boyd.com (Location: Scotland / Australia) #MDANT
Philip Reeve @philipreeve.bsky.social Author of Utterly Dark, Railhead, Mortal Engines: co-author (with Sarah McIntyre) of Adventuremice, Pugs of the Frozen North etc. My short film Gwenevere is now on YouTube.
simon blackbourn @simonblackbourn.net plymouth // photographer // serial wanderer // ancient stone botherer // co-founder + zine designer at dartmoor collective // job: freelance wordpress developer // https://simonblackbourn.offprint.app/
Jenny TP @jennytpgrows.bsky.social Head Gardener, Lecturer UEBS, proud director of Tamar Grow Local CIC, food systems research, food justice, horticulture, dogs, cats, politics & stuff. Member of RHS Learning & Engagement Group. Not adult enough for DMs here
Jon Vernon @onlyindevon.co.uk Digital yokel.
Between the moor and the sea.
Co-founder / director of @dartmoorcollective.org and live music events at paradiso.org.uk
#MDANT
Dartmoor / Music / Photography / Landscape / Bikes / Sea / Surf
https://refrakt.app/losingthelight