Edith Rimmington

[3][4] Having joined the London group she was encouraged in her painting, and indeed admired, by the artists Edward Burra and John Banting who became a good friend.

In her later years of visual art, Rimmington worked with color photography of coastal scenery including Sussex Coast, taken in 1960.

[2] There is only one oil painting by Edith Rimmington in the public domain, The Decoy which is on display in the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in Edinburgh.

Eight Interpreters of the Dream, Oil on canvas, 1940 [1] After attending the International Surrealist Exhibition in London, Edith Rimmington was inspired by the performative gesture of Salvador Dalî showing up in a diving suit.

He expressed that he would be “diving into the human subconscious.” Four years after this encounter with Salvador Dalî, Edith Rimmington created Eight Interpreters of the Dream.

As well producing works of art, and later photography, Edith also wrote poems and poetic prose often created through the medium of automatic text.

As fantasy in the claws of the poet is released by the broken arm it becomes imprisoned in the ossiferous callus wherein lice build themselves a tomb in which to escape the magic of the Marvelous.

I see it fly back to the beach to join a lazy crowd of gulls where it is fed on human flesh by tanks and guns.