ONE Big Mop Productions has announced the winner of a competition to create a work of art for its forthcoming film The Darkness of the Moor which is set on Dartmoor and based on its surrounding legends.

The competition was created in association with The Prince’s Trust and South West Art Workshops.

The selected artwork (featured opposite) is created by Mark Chilcott and depicts The Great Storm of Widecombe-in-the-Moor when the devil supposedly attacked Widecombe Church in 1638.

Mark used needles on wood in the old classical wood-carving style of Albrecht Dürer and Lucas Cranach. He is a self-taught artist currently living and working in Wales and who recently quit his job to pursue a full-time art career.

 The artwork will feature in the opening scene of the film and thereafter as part of an ongoing exhibition of The Darkness of the Moor at the Dartmoor National Park Visitor Centre in Princetown.

The artwork will eventually be auctioned at the film’s premiere at BAFTA in London next spring with proceeds being donated to The Prince’s Trust.

The exhibition will continue indefinitely, eventually including set photographs, display material, DVDs and the film trailer.