21 Facts About Dora Carrington

From her time as an art student, she was known simply by her surname as she considered Dora to be "vulgar and sentimental".

Dora Carrington was not well known as a painter during her lifetime, as she rarely exhibited and did not sign her work.

Dora Carrington worked for a while at the Omega Workshops, and for the Hogarth Press, designing woodcuts.

Dora Carrington was born in Hereford, England, to railway engineer Samuel Dora Carrington, who worked for the East India Company, and Charlotte.

Dora Carrington attended the all-girls' Bedford High School which emphasized art, and her parents paid for her to receive extra lessons in drawing.

Dora Carrington won a number of awards in the national school competitions organised by the Royal Drawing Society.

Dora Carrington's paintings were included in a number of group exhibitions, including with the New English Art Club, and she stopped signing and dating her work.

In 1914 Dora Carrington's parents moved to Ibthorpe House in the village of Hurstbourne Tarrant in Hampshire, and shortly afterwards she moved there and set up her studio in an outbuilding.

Dora Carrington was not a member of the Bloomsbury Group, though she was closely associated with Bloomsbury and, more generally, with "Bohemian" attitudes, through her long relationship with the homosexual writer Lytton Strachey, whom she first met in 1916.

Dora Carrington had a significant relationship with the writer Gerald Brenan.

Dora Carrington met Ralph Partridge, an Oxford friend of her younger brother Noel, in 1918.

In 1928 Dora Carrington met Bernard Penrose, a friend of Partridge and the younger brother of the artist Roland Penrose, and began an affair with him.

The affair, her last with a man, ended when Dora Carrington became pregnant and had an abortion.

Dora Carrington included pen sketches in letters to her friends, with the intention of entertaining them.

Dora Carrington was better known for her landscape paintings, which have been linked to surrealism.

For many years, Dora Carrington's art was neglected by the public, and her main notoriety was her relationship with Lytton Strachey.

Dora Carrington's biographer calls that sentiment "not true; but he could not have said anything more deeply consoling".

Dora Carrington died by suicide on 11 March 1932, two months after Strachey's death, using a gun borrowed from her friend, Hon.

Dora Carrington's body was cremated and the ashes buried under the laurels in the garden of Ham Spray House.

An accomplished painter of portraits, landscape and still-life, Dora Carrington worked in applied and decorative arts, painting on any type of surface she had at hand including inn signs, tiles and furniture.

Dora Carrington decorated pottery and designed the library at Ham Spray.