British artist and writer Ithell Colquhoun was a pioneer of Surrealist “automatism,” creating images from charcoal shavings or letting her unconscious take charge of a pen.

British Surrealist painter and writer Ithell Colquhoun (1906 - 1988) models the headdress she will wear to next month's Hampstead Arts Ball, 12th May 1949.

Ithell Colquhoun was an artist who "didn't sit still, visually or spiritually", said Phin Jennings in Time Out. Born in India, where her father worked as a colonial administrator, Colquhoun (1906 ...

Edward Burra – Ithell Colquhoun at Tate Britain, until 19 October 2025, tickets available here. Register now for one of The Standard’s newsletters.

n 1907, Ithell Colquhoun (pronounced “Eye-thell Co-hoon”), at the age of one, arrived in England with her family from India, where her father had been part of the colonial service. She would never go ...

Reviews of More, Pulp's first album in nearly 24 years, Edward Burra and Ithell Colquhoun exhibitions running in parallel at Tate Britain and the film, Jane Austen Wrecked My Life. Show more ...

Exquisitely strange, British Celtic surrealist artist, literary writer and occultist Ithell Colquhoun’s memoir of her travels in Ireland in the first half of the 1950s is now republished as a ...

‘Edward Burra – Ithell Colquhoun’ is at Tate Britain from 13 June–19 October 2025 ...