![]() ![]() ![]() Her interests, instead, lay in Irish fables, and English writers such as Lewis Carroll, Jonathan Swift, and Beatrix Potter. She balked at the rules of her Roman Catholic boarding schools, bored by the seemingly endless series of debutante balls. She created a pantheon of subjects that convey her interest in the sacred-one that is untethered to a specific religion or culture-and its presence in the intimate corners of our psyches.Ĭarrington rebelled against the societal expectations she encountered as an upper-class young woman born in Lancashire, England. “I didn’t have time to be anyone’s muse…I was too busy rebelling against my family and learning to be an artist.”Īnimal/human hybrids, giant goddesses, spaces for magical transformation, and enigmatic creatures populate Leonora Carrington’s artworks and writing. ![]()
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