Leonora Carrington Love Letter to a Nightmare — DOP

Leonora Carrington
Love Letter to a Nightmare

July 12 2025

Born into a newly rich English family she never felt part of, Leonora Carrington encountered Surrealism in her early twenties – a revelation that broke through the constraints of class, gender, and the decorum of rational thought. It led her to Paris, into a love affair with Max Ernst, and into the orbit of the Surrealist avant-garde (men who saw women as muses at best, but didn’t take them seriously as artists.).

The outbreak of World War II brought her world crashing down. Carrington spiraled into despair, was institutionalised in Spain, and fled Europe through a fragile corridor of chance. Mexico became her refuge – a place where her inner cosmology could root and unfold.

Her work is steeped in mythology, animism, and female sexuality – not as symbols, but as forces moving through the body of her work. She painted as if remembering, not inventing – mapping a reality most had stopped believing in.

I’ve always had access to other worlds. We all do because we dream.Leonora Carrington

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