27-02-2015 18:00 via theguardian.com

My highlight: Leonora Carrington

Ahead of the Tate Liverpool exhibition, Chloe Aridjis is inspired by Carrington’s oracular animal hybrids, her great natural and mythical worlds – and her fierce authenticity“I am as mysterious to myself as I am mysterious to others,” Leonora Carrington once said in an interview. Loyal to their creator, the figures in her paintings are similarly hermetic and complex, often poised between what seems like enigma and revelation, envoys of hieroglyphs we can’t quite decipher. Sometimes the
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