Raised in a wealthy and conservative family in Lancashire, England, she was expelled from a number of finishing schools – the proverbial black sheep of her family. Populated with mythical beings in dreamlike surroundings, she created a world that seems imbued with symbolic meaning, yet defies any easy deciphering. She was a prolific painter and writer: her paintings are otherworldly and complex, sometimes disturbing – but in a good way. In the context of the traditional art history canon, she is mostly known for having run off with Max Ernst in 1937, but I immediately became intrigued with her work and her extraordinary life.
I first came across her work as an undergraduate art history student almost 20 years ago in a class on Surrealism. Leonora Carrington, Grandmother Moorhead's Aromatic Kitchen, 1975.Įver since I learned that Leonora Carrington died in May, I have been thinking about her.
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