![]() Tales of enchantment and the divine entered into Carrington’s life at a young age: her Irish mother and grandmother would captivate the young Leonora with Celtic myths and told her that she was directly descended from a race of Irish fairy people called the Sidhe. Her parents were nouveau riche, and she and her three brothers were raised in a looming gothic mansion called Crookhey Hall, located not far from where the Pendle witch trials took place. Leonora Carrington was born in 1917 in Lancashire, England to a strict Catholic family. ![]() She had all the makings of an icon, and yet she did not find acclaim or notoriety until after her death in 2011. ![]() She was a surrealist painter, a magic practitioner, a runaway, and a debutante. ![]() Her wild life was marked by adventure, rebellion, and an irrepressible desire to create. Long before Sephora started selling “ Starter Witch Kits” and books with titles like Witches, Sluts, Feminists: Conjuring the Sex Positive became mainstream, the Mexican-British surrealist painter, Leonora Carrington, was conjuring her own magical realms with the help of paint and the written word. ![]()
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