Leonora Carrington England, 1917-2011

Biography

Moving from the northern English countryside and ultimately to Mexico City, she created a language shaped by love, fiercely personal in tone, independent in spirit, and later profoundly influential, and it is in her book ‘Down Below’ where this feels most honest.

Leonora Carrington developed a universe where myth, alchemy and the unconscious converge. Working across painting, sculpture, and writing her practice unfolds through symbols drawn from Celtic lore, esoteric traditions, memory and psychoanalysis. Moving from the northern English countryside and ultimately to Mexico City, she created a language shaped by love, fiercely personal in tone, independent in spirit, and later profoundly influential, and it is in her book ‘Down Below’ where this feels most honest.

Works