Clinton Heylin

A tender portrait of Leonora Carrington, painter, writer — and a mother who was not always there

Gabriel Weisz Carrington’s somewhat thin biography is rescued by the pithy sayings of Leonora herself and 16 of her paintings

The High Priestess tarot card by Leonora Carrington. Credit: Copyright Estate of Leonora Carrington-ARS New York-Courtesy of FULGUR PRESS
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  • The Invisible Painting: My Memoir of Leonora Carrington

    Gabriel Weisz Carrington

    Manchester University Press, pp. 152, £17

  • The Tarot of Leonora Carrington

    Edited by Tere Arcq and Susan Aberth

    Fulgur Press, pp. 120, £40

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