Leslie Dienes

Leonora Carrington was a British-born visionary, a painter and novelist whose vibrant imagination pulsed with the currents of the esoteric and the mystical. For most of her life, she resided in Mexico City, a nexus from which her unique worldview radiated outwards. A late luminary of the 1930s Surrealist movement, Carrington’s art and writing delved deeply into the subconscious, weaving together ancient mythologies, alchemical symbolism, and the untamed power of the feminine psyche. Her novels…