Possible Clues:

• More adjacent or more miserly
• Never around anywhere approaching where the artist turns up
• Well-known hymn '. . . . . . my God to Thee'
• Much closer to
• Not so far as to be comparatively 30 across
• Easier to reach, say
• Not as far off
• Members of commune are really not so far away
• '___, My God, to Thee' (hymn)
• Not so distant