Leonora Carrington OBE was an English-born Mexican artist, surrealist painter, and novelist. She lived most of her adult life in Mexico City, and was one of the last surviving participants in the Surrealist movement of the 1930s. Leonora Carrington was also a founding member of the Women’s Liberation Movement in Mexico during the 1970s.
Financial Times 2017: Carrington is as famous for her life as for her art. The story of the nicely born English girl, child of a wealthy industrialist, who fled her respectable roots to hang out in New York and Paris with Surrealist writers and artists (her relationship with the older Max Ernst began when she was just 20), has a lingering glamour. After she settled in Mexico in 1941, her art flowered in a baffling number of directions: playwriting to sculpture, poetry to tapestry and set design-although her painting remains the best know. Filled with the familiar dreamlike imagery of Surrealism's vocabulary, her work responded to the vibrancy and folklore of her adopted Mexico why retaining storybook delicacy.
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