Dora carrington english artist

Dora carrington prints

Trained at the prestigious Slade School of Fine Art, Dora Carrington was a unique artistic talent of the early twentieth century. Dora Carrington is among the most talented artists and designers of her generation. After studying at the Slade, where she won various awards and even a scholarship, she was reluctant to exhibit and stopped signing and dating her work early on in her career.

Thus, Carrington was always at something of a distance from the art scene of her day and remained relatively unknown during her lifetime. Nowadays, her legacy is often overshadowed by her connection to the Bloomsbury Group — and by her relationship with Lytton Strachey in particular. Dora de Houghton Carrington was born in Herefordshire on 29 March to an affluent, comfortably middle-class family.

She attended Bedford High School, an all-girls institution where her artistic talents were recognized and actively encouraged. Her parents also paid for additional tuition in drawing, and she won various awards in national school competitions. Despite their financial support of her artistic talents, her relationship with her parents was somewhat complex.

While she felt an uncomplicated and instinctive love for her father, she rebelled against the straight-laced Victorian views of her mother. It was, therefore, with great relief that she left home for London, aged just seventeen, to attend the Slade School of Fine Art in London in