Alchemy and Hermeticism in the work of Leonora Carrington

Leonora Carrington’s traumatic breakdown and incarceration in the Spanish asylum at Santander, in the early 1940s yielded an extraordinary psychological engagement with alchemical images and themes in her memoir Down Below, which is richly informed by the Surrealist obsession with hermeticism. This engagement became foundational in her other works (The Hearing Trumpet and The Stone Door) in her paintings (such as “The Garden of Paracelsus” and “The Burning of Giordano Bruno”).

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