ABSTRACT
The desire to explore the marvellous, to delineate a new area of awareness, was explicit in the title of an exhibition which took place in Exeter in April and May 1967, The Enchanted Domain. 1 As well as E.L.T. Mesens, J.B. Brunius, who had settled in Britain after the war, and Conroy Maddox, now a Londoner, its organizers included a newcomer to the group, John Lyle, a bookseller on Deanery Place, Exeter, and a figure who was about to inspire British surrealists to return to the art scene for the next ten years or so. 2
