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An illustrated biography of the pioneering British artist and writer, tracing her life and work through the many places around the world where she lived The British-born artist and writer Leonora Carrington (1917�2011) is one of the vanguards in the history of women artists and the history of Surrealism. The interests of this visionary�feminism, ecology, the arcane and the mystical, the interconnectedness of everything�are now shared by many. Challenging the conventions of her time, Carrington abandoned family, society, and England to embrace new experiences and forge a unique artistic style in Europe and the Americas. In this evocative illustrated biography, writer and journalist Joanna Moorhead traces her cousin�s footsteps, exploring the artist�s life, loves, friendships, and work. Leading readers on a personal journey across Britain, Ireland, France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, the United States, and Mexico, Surreal Spaces describes the places and experiences that would become etched in Carrington�s memory and be echoed, sometimes decades later, in her art and writing�whether her grandmother�s kitchen with its giant stove; a remote Cornish hideaway where she holidayed with Max Ernst, Lee Miller, and Man Ray; the Left Bank of Paris; an asylum in Santander, Spain; New York, where she lived among other European exiles; or Mexico City, her final sanctuary. �Houses are really bodies,� Carrington wrote in her novella The Hearing Trumpet. �We connect ourselves with walls, roofs and objects just as we hang on to our livers, skeletons, flesh and blood streams.� Featuring photographs, drawings, and paintings of the spaces that so richly influenced Carrington�s work, Surreal Spaces is an intimate and vivid portrait of a fascinating artist.