LEONORA CARRINGTON (1917-2011): This queer British-born Mexican feminist painter+writer definitely created some magic towards the end of the surrealist movement. Her work was meticulous and layered with beautifully rich colors. She focused on animals, alchemical matter and its movement. The creatures, animals, and people all carry a quality of femininity throughout her paintings.
The richness of color and movement in her paintings are a dream to me.
Leonora once said she was not born, but made: “One melancholy day, her mother, bloated by chocolate truffles, oyster purée, and cold pheasant, feeling fat and listless and undesirable, had lain on top of a machine. The machine was a marvellous contraption, designed to extract hundreds of gallons of semen from animals—pigs, cockerels, stallions, urchins, bats, ducks—and, one can imagine, bring its user to the most spectacular orgasm, turning her whole sad, sick being inside out and upside down. From this communion of human, animal, and machine, Leonora was conceived. When she emerged, on April 6, 1917, England shook.” (NewYorker By Merve Emre)