The Kitchen Garden on the Eyot

The Kitchen Garden on the Eyot is a tempera on wood panel painting by English artist Leonora Carrington, created in 1946.

The title of the canvas mentions the kitchen garden seen at the center of the composition, where several fruit trees and vegetables are grown.

Solomon Adler believes that the three feminine figures, at the left, can be interpreted as references to Carrington herself and other friends who shared some of her interests, like Spanish painter Remedios Varo and Hungarian photographer Kati Horna.

Adler describes the painting, similarly to others from the artist, as an "etheral vision", where "On the right, a white phantom springs from the trunk of a tree; on the left, a horned figure in red robes resembling the Celtic god Cernunnos consorts with fellow spirits.

"[2] It also should be noticed the presence of the egg as a symbol of birth and creation, starting by the medium of tempera used by Carrington.