No one got Angela Carter like Corinna Sargood | Susannah Clapp

The illustrator’s vivid depictions of her annual visits to Mexico reveal why she was the author’s kindred spiritI have been relishing an illustrated book by Corinna Sargood. I love this artist’s paintings of Mexican life: bright scenes on wood, some in tin frames, crammed with tiny figures: a harpist, a bullfighter, a psychiatrist appealing for patients through a loudspeaker. They often have moving parts and secret windows; in one, miniature doors swing open to show the painter