Leonora Carrington – A British-born–Mexican Artist and Surrealist Painter
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Leonora Carrington OBE (1917 — 2011) was a British-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.

Carrington was born in Clayton Green, Chorley, Lancashire, England. Her father was a wealthy textile manufacturer, and her mother, Maureen (née Moorhead), was Irish. She had three brothers: Patrick, Gerald, and Arthur.

Seeing Max Ernst’s work in the 1936 International Surrealist Exhibition in London, Carrington was immediately attracted to the Surrealist artist before she even met him. In 1937, Carrington met Ernst at a party held in London. The artists bonded and returned together to Paris, where Ernst promptly separated from his wife. In 1938, leaving Paris, they settled in Saint Martin d’Ardèche in southern France. The new couple collaborated and supported each other’s artistic development. It has been noted that these two artists collaborated and created sculptures of guardian animals (Ernst created his birds and Carrington created a plaster horse head) to decorate their home in Saint Martin d’Ardèche. In 1939, Carrington painted a portrait of Max Ernst, as a tribute to their relationship.

The first major exhibition of her work in UK for twenty years, took place at Chichester’s Pallant House Gallery, West Sussex, from 17 June to 12 September 2010, as part of a season of major international exhibitions called Surreal Friends. These were taken place celebrating women’s role in Surrealist movement. Her work was exhibited alongside pieces by her close friends; the Spanish painter Remedios Varo (1908–1963) and the Hungarian photographer Kati Horna (1912–2000).