If the art critics and the art world had a more sensitive eye to original art when the artist was still alive, she might have had an anchor to go on painting - beyond the death of her beloved Lytton , but it is the eternal story, that the art critics and the art world think they know what art is and what art should be like, and they do seldom applaud before it is too late for the artist to enjoy the fruits of really original and earnest work made in its hay day.

Dora Carrington should have been applauded and praised more loudly a long time ago. We lost her before she was forty, because the world hates originality when it is a live, and loves it to bits when the person is dead. She was not the ultimate victim of her time, like Van Gogh, Modigliani etc. because she did not exhibit the art she loved the most. She got by on a small pension and less serious but decorative artwork, sold in small shops.

This book will illuminated you about Carrington’s Art, and provide means to the understanding of the fragile mind of this flamboyant artist whose original – and before her time - viewpoints on both Art, Love and Relationships gave her the title - an Eccentric. But, she really was a free spirit, trying to back out of post Victorian and Edwardian nonsense, as many artists and especially women artists tried to do with more or less success at the time.