Twenty years ago Roger Wagner and a group of fellow artists –The Metaphysical Painters – set out on the first of a series of annual pilgrimages to places associated with poets, painters and writers who transfigured the landscapes in which they lived. The poems and paintings inspired by these  journeys  gave  rise to a book  – The Farther Away which weaves the poems together in a narrative that begins in a Japanese bamboo forest and ends on a pilgrimage through Wales to Ynys Enlli ‘the island of twenty thousand saints’.  This exhibition tells the story of those pilgrimages in the images they produced.

During the course of the exhibition there will be the premiere of JAC Redford’s setting of Roger Wagner’s Fire Sonnets