Surrealist Visionary Ithell Colquhoun Sought Enlightenment from Beyond the Mortal Realm

Like all interesting people, Ithell Colquhoun was a mass of contradictions. She was obsessed with sex but uninterested in romantic relationships. She was radical in her art but fundamentally traditional in many aspects of her life. She was an occultist and spiritualist, but she never committed to any one system of belief. She is best remembered for her involvement in British Surrealism, but that period was short-lived. Her life’s work was expansive and deeply mystical. It remains completel