DARTMOOR Perhaps it's interesting on a personal level; to say something about a place in England
that I have found very inspiring. I first came to Dartmoor in 1978. I had been living in West Wales, and went to live in a place called Totness in Devon, on a farm with a few friends. I must say, when I arrived I did not have any real great expectations of the place, as I already had the view that the Peak district in the north and Wales in the West of England, were the most " magical "places in Britain.
I can assure you that I don't use this word in any airy fairy way!
Anyway, one of my friends said to me one day "lets go on to Dartmoor". From the time that I was very young (sounds strange writing this ) I was very sensitive to feeling that a place would have upon me; of course both positively and negatively because I realized that places have a soul and there are places where the soul has been all but destroyed in nature which of course is related to industrial and ecological factors;
So we took off for the moors - When we returned to the farm I felt that I had awoken from some wonderful and fragrant dream. The earth soul of Dartmoor had embraced me and would never let me go!
This is a small sketch that I made after my last trip to Dartmoor more later .
