Her later success as an artist who specialized in equine surrealism is, Poniatowska suggests, less a matter of choice than temperament. When her father yells, "You are a truly impossible child!", one hears "truly impossible" as a piece of prophetic art criticism that describes the fantastical figures of "The Pomps of the Subsoil" or "The Giantess".
Currently the subject of a retrospective at Tate Liverpool, Leonora was born into a life of wealth and ambition. Her father, the major shareholder in ICI, loved his only daughter, but planned a life for her of debutante balls. Leonora was her father's daughter, for good and bad. Possessed of his determination and drive, she also found in Harold Wilde Carrington the perfect person against which to rebel.
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