Places of Pilgrimage at Southwell Minster

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Friday 11 September - Sunday 11 October 2015

Places of Pilgrimage is an exciting new exhibition of paintings and hand made prints at Southwell Minster.

This is the first showing of a touring exhibition by Yorkshire artist Ian Scott Massie about special locations where people go for a variety of reasons. The reasons might be musical, cinematic, spiritual, historical, legendary or literary. The places featured stretch from the standing stones of Men An Tol in Cornwall to the granite city of Aberdeen in Scotland.

Ian has spent the last two years travelling Britain portraying and writing about places as diverse as Dylan Thomas’ boathouse (where he wrote Under Milk Wood), King Arthur’s castle at Tintagel and Greyfriars Bobby’s grave in Edinburgh.

The result is a series of seventy paintings and screen prints which capture the atmosphere and personality of these places.

The exhibition opens with a preview on Friday 11th September and continues until 11th October. All works are for sale.

Ian’s writings and pictures will be appearing in a book – Places of Pilgrimage – to be published by SPCK in December. The exhibition will be touring over the next two years to Greenwich, Stourhead, Masham, Durham, Cambridge, Devizes and Hexham.